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Asked later in the press conference what he thought about Sen. Paul’s 13-hour filibuster last week, Sanders sounded unimpressed — even though it outlasted Sanders’ own 8.5-hour diatribe in December 2011 against tax breaks for the wealthy. “Obviously I disagree with Sen. Paul. He’s an extraordinarily conservative guy,” the Vermont independent said, before quickly segueing to the need for filibuster reform. Paul’s speech, of course, focused on his hyperbolic concern that the Obama administration might be willing to kill American terrorism suspects in domestic drone strikes, as it has abroad. Sanders himself cited the administration’s drone program in his justification last Thursday for changing his mind at the last minute and opposing Obama’s CIA director nominee. Asked to clarify whether he disagreed with the Kentucky senator, Sanders said, “Yeah, Sen. Paul is — well, he spoke for 12 hours. I’m not going to go into everything—” before turning to WCAX’s Keith McGilvery for another question on the topic at hand. When Seven Days attempted to ask a third time, Sanders abruptly ended the press conference after just 20 minutes, saying, “I’ve gotta … I’ve got a plane to catch. You’ve had about four questions.” Rising from his seat, he said, “OK. Thank you all very much.” After Johnny One-Note left the room, Seven Days asked Dan Mclean — Sanders’ Vermont press secretary and a former Burlington Free Press reporter — why the senator wouldn’t answer such a basic, inoffensive question. “I think he wanted to talk about what he wanted to talk about,” MacLean explained. Indeed. In a follow-up email, chief spokesman Michael BriGGs clarified that Sanders believes Paul “is an extremely conservative senator who often panders to his right-wing base.” Mirror, mirror, on the wall? Helpfully, Briggs added, “No, Bernie does not agree with Sen. Paul that President Obama is going to attack San Francisco with drones.” m

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away from bread-and-butter economic issues, his answers become curt. On the issue of gun violence, he is particularly tight-lipped. Indeed, he refused to grant an interview to Seven Days on the subject for two and a half months after last December’s deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. That could be because Sanders — who first won election to the U.S. House when the National Rifle Association targeted his Republican opponent — has largely opposed federal firearm laws, calling gun control an issue for states to decide. His position seemed to shift in January, when he intimated in a written statement that he’d support federal bans on assault weapons and high-capacity clips proposed by Obama. But in last week’s interview, he seemed to back away again from such measures, saying, “If you passed the strongest gun control legislation tomorrow, I don’t think it will have a profound effect on the tragedies we have seen.” Asked whether he’d vote for an assault-weapons ban if it reached the Senate floor, he said, “We’ll see. We’ll see what other things it is part of.” “What about high-capacity ammunition?” Seven Days asked. “That is something we’re looking at as well,” he said. Asked why he was on the fence about the assault-weapons ban, which he backed in 1994, Sanders interrupted midsentence, saying, “This is not one of my major issues. It’s an issue out there. I’ve told you how I feel about it. If there’s anything else you want to ask me about, I’m happy to answer. But that’s about it.” Five minutes after the gun discussion had begun, Johnny One-Note wanted to get back to tax policy and economic disparity. Back in Burlington five days later, Sanders was in similar form. After calling a press conference at his Church Street district office, Sanders told a group of four television reporters, one online reporter and one print reporter precisely what they didn’t want to hear. “Today my goal in life is to thoroughly bore you and deal with what is an issue of extraordinary importance, but it is frankly not sexy TV stuff,” he said. “It deals with the budget.” Sitting between two social service agency directors, Sanders passionately decried the effect the $1.5 billion budget sequester would have on Vermont’s poor and working class. “Passionately” meaning, in this case, that he was redfaced and practically shouting halfway through his remarks.

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ive years ago, Megnath Neupane was one of 17,000 Bhutanese living in an overcrowded refugee camp in eastern Nepal. He and his family were holed up in a tiny shack with a leaky plastic roof and no electricity or indoor plumbing. Today, you could say 35-year-old Neupane is living the American dream. He owns a $353,000 duplex in Winooski with his wife, Chhali Maya, 8-year-old daughter, Prinsha, and 18-month-old son, Praveen. The rent he gets from the second unit, which houses 11 more Bhutanese refugees, covers the mortgage and property taxes for the entire building. The Neupanes closed on their home on April 14, 2011, and have already paid down nearly half the $225,000 mortgage. What’s the secret to their real-estate success? “I strongly believe in sincerity, hard work, dedication, punctuality,” says Neupane, who works afternoon and evening shifts as a pharmacy technician at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. Being “friendly to everybody, especially our new culture.” Neupane smiles often, and it’s easy to see why. He’s part of a growing population of Bhutanese in Vermont who are transitioning from being renters to being homeowners. Some, like Neupane, are even starting to buy investment properties. More income is only part of the motivation; Neupane wants to be in a position to help more recent immigrants get established. “Typically, when people are forced to flee their homeland, they lose their homes and virtually all their possessions,” says Judy Scott, executive director of the Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program. “This instills a great respect for the value and security of owning a home in a democracy, where the right to own property cannot be abrogated.” Neither VRRP nor its parent organization, the U.S. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants, keep statistics on homeownership rates among the immigrants they resettle. But while all refugee groups work hard to assimilate into American culture and put down roots, anecdotal evidence suggests the Bhutanese have proven especially successful in real-estate endeavors. They’ve accomplished this, she explains, by pooling their resources, keeping extended families under one roof and practicing extreme frugality.

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On a recent visit to the Neupane home, we sat in their living room drinking chai tea and eating bowls of spicy Bhutanese soup made using instant Ramen noodles. On this particular afternoon, both Megnath and Chhali Maya were home, which they noted is unusual. On most days, the couple works at their respective jobs outside the home while a parent watches their toddler son. Neupane, who’s one of four brothers, isn’t the only member of his family to own a home. In the last year, a younger brother built a new house in Colchester.

“We don’t work for seven days and spend for a night,” Neupane says, referring to the family’s fiscal discipline. They always eat home-cooked meals, never buy alcohol and don’t spend “a penny” on “unnecessary things.” As Neupane conducted a tour of his home, he explained that his immediate family occupies the much smaller side of the duplex. Built in 2007, the house is cozy and modern, with an unfinished basement, an eat-in kitchen and three bedrooms on the second floor. Neupane’s daughter

has her own room, but the baby sleeps in the master bedroom. A third bedroom is a guest room, where the Neupanes occasionally host newly arrived refugees, both Bhutanese and Iraqi, until they find permanent housing. Next door, Neupane showed the other half of the duplex — a two-story unit that seems palatial in comparison to his own. It includes a huge eat-in kitchen, three bathrooms and a spacious living room. Upstairs, five large bedrooms with high ceilings are shared by 11 members of an extended Bhutanese family. Most were at work, except for a set of grandparents, their daughter and an infant grandson. Unable to communicate in English, they were seated in front of a large TV watching a VCR tape of a traditional Bhutanese dance. Neupane was 11 — and had learned English in kindergarten — when his family was kicked out of Bhutan. He spent 19 years in a refugee camp but still managed to earn bachelor’s degrees in both chemistry and education at a nearby university in Nepal. Prepared as he was, Neupane knew he’d have to remake himself in America. “I came to United States with hope I can do a lot better,” he says. “Even back in Nepal, I knew USA doesn’t just mean ‘United States of America,’ but ‘U Start Again.’” Immediately after their arrival, the Neupanes lived with a Vermont family for about a week before moving into an apartment in Burlington’s Old North End. Despite two decades of refugee camp living, the condition of the property came as a shock. “I cannot forget that apartment for my life. It was so nasty,” Neupane recalls, referring to the bedbugs, mice and cockroaches that infested the place. “It was totally opposite of my imagination of what America would be.” Was it better or worse than the refugee camp? “Both have pros and cons,” he says. Despite a popular misconception, resettled refugees receive housing assistance for only a few months. For those who want to buy their own homes, there are no preferential deals or federal-assistance programs that help them obtain mortgages at a lower-than-market rate. Like most new Americans, Neupane didn’t have a credit history. Early on,

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â€œWhen they saw me, they started crying,â€? he recalls. â€œI had a good job in my country, so they thought Iâ€™d get the same kind of job over here.â€? Adhikari quit after one week and found another job at IBM. Later, with his familyâ€™s help, he bought an Indian grocery in Winooski, which he sold after two years to help pay for this house. Today he works at the Rhino Foods factory in Burlington with several other family members. While the work isnâ€™t what he trained for in Nepal, Adhikari says, â€œItâ€™s better than before.â€? Janice Battaline, a real estate agent with REMAX North in Colchester, has helped nearly a dozen Bhutanese families buy their first homes. Battaline didnâ€™t represent either the Neupanes or the Adhikaris but says their stories are consistent with other Bhutanese clients sheâ€™s had, who have purchased property in Essex Junction, Burlington, Winooski and Colchester. â€œTheyâ€™re such nEupAnE hard workers â€” oh, my gosh!â€? she says. â€œTheyâ€™ll each work two or three jobs, whatever it takes, to save up to get their own home.â€? Battaline, who first connected with the Bhutanese community about five years ago when she and her husband became VRRP volunteers, notes that these families are providing an invaluable service to Chittenden Countyâ€™s housing market by moving up the real-estate chain, thereby making more rentals available to immigrants who have arrived more recently. Indeed, while Neupane was showing off his Winooski duplex, he received a cellphone call from his real estate agent about an investment property, which he planned to visit later that afternoon. Ultimately, he said, he hopes to become a full-time property manager. His goal isnâ€™t to be rich, Neupane said, but â€œprestigiousâ€? within his community. â€œI donâ€™t want to be a â€˜landlord,â€™â€? he added emphatically. â€œI just want to be someone who helps my community.â€? m

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however, he heeded the advice of friends and advisers at VRRP and applied for a credit card â€” his first-ever form of personal identification. â€œI really worked hard building up the credit,â€? Neupane explains. Today, he says, he urges his own tenants to do the same. As each tenant pays just a small portion of their income in rent, they, too, are able to put away money. Several miles away, Lalit Adhikari, 32, welcomes a visitor into his large house in Burlingtonâ€™s New North End. Adhikari, 32, was born in Bhutan in the same village as Neupane. The oldest of five children, he lived there for seven years until the government imprisoned his father, a lawyer, for being a Hindu. â€œI had to take care of everything when my dad was put in prison,â€? Adhikari recalls. â€œThe government wouldnâ€™t release him until we say weâ€™re happy to leave the country.â€? Adhikari spent 19 years in a refugee MEg nATh camp in Nepal before moving to the United States. He arrived on June 2, 2008, with little more than the clothes on his back and 50 Nepalese rupees in his pocket â€” about one dollar. Four years later, on June 6, 2012, Adhikari closed on a spacious house on almost a quarter acre, where he lives with six other family members: his wife, parents, brother, sister and 2-year-old son. The family bought the house by pooling their resources. His mother is the only family member who doesnâ€™t work outside the home; she stays home to watch her grandson. â€œThe Bhutanese have their heritage of families living together and finding the resources to help each other,â€? says Adhikari, who paid $299,000 for the house. â€œThat helps us a little bit, with all of us working together to buy a house.â€? Back in Nepal, Adhikari was a mathematics and science teacher. But because his college degree isnâ€™t recognized in the United States, his first job in Vermont was washing dishes at Tiny Thai restaurant in Winooski. One day his brother and sister stopped by to visit him at his new job.

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fter more than two decades as business partners, two of Burlington’s most influential developers and real estate brokers are going their separate ways. Even if you don’t know their names, Doug Nedde and Larry Williams and their firm, Redstone Commerical Group, have had a major impact on Chittenden County: They redeveloped the Chace Mill on the Winooski River and breathed new life into a dilapidated Shelburne inn. The duo turned the burned-out remnants of the Saputo Cheese plant in Hinesburg into a multi-use food and agricultural hub. In 2007, Nedde and Williams bought Bolton Valley ski area together. Their biggest undertaking to date — the $33 million Redstone Lofts student residence — opened last summer with 403 beds at the University of Vermont. Redstone has plenty of projects in the pipeline, too. It’s brokering the Riverhouse luxury apartment complex in Winooski, where 72 units will come on the market in August. Come May, the firm plans to break ground on a new hotel on the so-called TD Bank block at the corner of Main and St. Paul streets in Burlington: The $30 million, 138-room hotel will incorporate the historic Armory at 101 Main, capping a decade-long renovation of the onceneglected city block. Redstone currently houses 700 residential tenants in the greater Burlington area and manages roughly 1.5 million square feet of office and residential space — home to 153 businesses. Over the last five years, the company has acquired or developed approximately $80 million in real estate. Williams and Nedde are diplomatic when they talk about their split, which Williams termed an “amicable separation”; both say it’s simply time to pursue their own ventures. Williams is buying out Nedde’s share in Redstone in a deal that will close by the end of the month. Nedde is starting up Nedde Real Estate. The pair will continue to share ownership in some 30 Vermont properties, including Bolton. The breakup did come as “a bit of a surprise,” concedes Michael Monte, the chief operating and financial officer at the Champlain Housing Trust. Monte directed Burlington’s Community and Economic Development Office from 1989 to 1993 and again from 1999 to 2007; it was in that role that he first worked with Williams and Nedde. “They’ve been a strong, long-term kind of developer, and that’s good to have,” says Monte. “It’s good to have folks who don’t

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Now the partNers are splittiNg up. want to get in, get out, and you never see them again.” Bruce Seifer, former assistant director for economic development at CEDO, points out that Redstone’s commitment has gone beyond brick-and-mortar investments. “They were part of the envisioning of what Burlington could be,” says Seifer, who worked with Redstone to encourage Dealer.com to move into a former brush bristle factory the firm redeveloped on Pine Street. “It’s not just putting up a building. It’s about quality of life. It’s been a generation of effort, and they’ve been part of that.” “I think they raised the bar for the type of projects that they did,” agrees Yves Bradley, the head of commercial brokerage at Pomerleau Real Estate. “By virtue of the fact that they were both from the greater Burlington area” — Williams and Nedde grew up in Shelburne and both graduated from UVM — “they brought a unique

vision of and understanding of our market, and where the market could progress.” Brian Pine, CEDO’s assistant director for housing and neighborhood revitalization, praises the pair for their commitment to downtown, mixed-use developments; several big Redstone projects have focused on what’s known as “infill” development, which taps underutilized buildings or sites in an urban setting. Smart-growth advocates consider it essential to revitalizing downtowns. Redstone is also versatile. “Some developers go out and do housing, housing, housing, housing, or metal buildings, metal buildings, metal buildings,” says Nedde. “I like doing a bit of renovating, repositioning older buildings, historic rehab, developing condominiums, developing apartments.” Insiders in Burlington’s real estate industry say it’s too soon to know how the Redstone split will alter the region’s brokerage and development landscape.

Williams says the client experience won’t change much, but the firm will soon have to decide whether to grow outside of Vermont. “Over the last 22 years I’ve worked incredibly hard building the Redstone brand and its integrity, and I think it’s in a great position right now. Hopefully Larry will continue its good will,” says Nedde, adding that he has a stake in the company’s continued success. “I have a significant part of my net worth under management by Redstone.” Will Nedde be poaching any Redstone clients? That remains to be seen; he points out that real estate is a business built on relationships. In his new venture, Nedde says he’s looking forward to focusing on acquisitions, development and commercial brokerage. His new company will manage a 21,000-square-foot office building on Hinesburg Road, as well as the 90,000-square-foot City Center complex in Montpelier, which Nedde owns individually. “We approach things in different ways, and that has resulted in a very productive partnership that’s accomplished a lot over its life,” says Williams, looking back on the 22-year partnership. “Now we’re just at a point where we like the idea of seeing what we can accomplish on our own.” m

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be that the Big Five are playing catch-up in Vermont. But officials aren’t sure. The Vermont Department of Financial Regulation doesn’t compile statistics on which entities are initiating foreclosures, Candon says. He does observe, however, that Vermont lending institutions are much less likely to launch foreclosure actions than are the Big Five. “Vermont banks and credit unions are hand-holding, trying to help people who fall behind,” he says. Avildsen also cites “a tremendous difference between Vermont bank mortgages and national bank mortgages.” In comparison to the loosey-goosey terms offered in the previous decade by subprime lenders, Vermont-based creditors “often required more of borrowers and had personal relationships with borrowers,” Avildsen notes. “At Legal Aid, we rarely get involved with cases involving Vermont banks.” Some foreclosure cases in Vermont are “just heartwrenching,” Candon says. Medical bills, job losses and marital issues are the leading causes of loan delinquencies leading to foreclosure proceedings, he says. Take the case of one client of Jessica Radbord’s. The Vermont Legal Aid attorney tells of a Chittenden County homeowner who developed cancer and had to undergo surgery and chemotherapy, resulting in whopping bills and the loss of her job. The woman was threatened with foreclosure until Legal Aid helped her enter a federally sponsored mediation process that can reduce mortgage interest rates and stretch out payment periods. The woman was able to keep her home as a result, Radbord reports. An unknown number of Vermonters have not been as fortunate. Candon says the state does not know how many of the 10,772 foreclosure filings since 2005 actually forced Vermonters into homelessness. m

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description I recently read about neighbors opposed to a multiunit residential development who took their case to the Vermont Supreme Court. These project opponents were emotionally invested, had identified the project as fundamentally wrong and wanted solely to stop that project. That description also fits the vocal opponents of wind-energy projects in Vermont. Virtually every substantive issue they raise in opposition can be answered by either data-driven research or through careful and appropriate siting restrictions. Yet they continue to dismiss the facts — mostly on the basis that they just don’t believe them. Their dismissal of polling data showing strong support for wind power in Vermont is just the latest in a long line of facts they brush aside. Climate change is bearing down on us and we have to change our energy ways. Wind power has an important role to play as part of the solution for Vermont’s energy future, along with conservation, efficiency, solar and hydro. The majority of Vermonters understand this. Linda Gray NorWich

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arguments posited against this “conventional wisdom” by spokesmen for anti-wind groups Vermonters for a Clean Environment and Energize Vermont. These critiques of the three wellconducted polls are nothing but cries for attention around the proposed threeyear wind moratorium bill. If the state of Vermont is going to follow the current State Energy Plan and reach 90 percent renewable power by 2050, it is clear that utility-scale wind projects must play a role. To ignore a renewable resource with this much potential is to continue our reliance on fossil-fuel-based electricity. When you place the aesthetic qualities of large-scale turbines against the destruction caused by mountaintop removal for coal, the choice is obvious. I agree with Paul Burns, who is quoted in the article as saying, “The public supports it. It’s necessary for our environment, for our health and for jobs.” I urge those who support the wind moratorium to consider the real externalities of coal and oil. Though they may be far removed from our lives, the environmental impacts make wind projects pale in comparison. Neil Brandt

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The fact that Burlington Telecom might be sold to a corporation proves a very real point about trying to blend public and private ownership [“Can a Pledge Drive Save Burlington Telecom From Corporate Ownership?” January 30]. That point is that corporate capitalism (or monopoly capitalism, to be correct) does not exist to serve the community, only to maximize profits. When this motivation is combined with political leaders who only see the bottom line and have few qualms about selling off publicly owned properties, goods and services in order to look good now (the future be damned), the commons is heading toward ruin. If the original plan to create a publicly owned telecommunications system in Burlington had been fulfilled, there would be no Citigroup taking Burlington to court and no corporate mayor/city council considering selling. Instead, corporate capitalism (primarily in the form of the discredited Adelphia corporation) cried unfair competition, convinced legislators (wink, wink) to vote down the publicly owned plan and insist on private involvement. Now, what could have been an example of community-operated and community-owned telecommunications looks like it will end up being just another corporate cable/internet scam. Watch out! If the mayor is thinking about selling Burlington Telecom to a corporation, could Burlington Electric be far behind? ron Jacobs

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An accessible art gallery sounds like an apt addition to that urban park space. But why is Castleton footing the bill for a Rutland venue some 10 miles from the college? Isn’t its CHRISTINE PRICE GALLERY enough? “Most people don’t travel very far to look at art,” Ramage says. “We have a good gallery on campus, but it’s predominantly appreciated by college people.” He suggests the additional exposure to artists will be good for both the college and the community. In addition, Ramage notes, Castleton’s president, DAVE WOLK, “is from Rutland and has been interested in getting more involved in the town … [He wants] a real and viable presence in downtown.” Indeed, under Wolk’s presidency the college has purchased and renovated Rutland’s Spartan Arena, has created a community outdoor ice rink, and sends students to town to volunteer for the city’s nonprofits. “We have a fiveyear lease on the [Downtown Gallery] property and are exploring other ways to integrate our growing performing arts programs at the PARAMOUNT THEATRE as well,” Wolk writes in an email. He echoes Ramage’s comment that investing in the town benefits the college community, too. In bringing more art to the fine residents of Rutland, the Castleton Downtown will have one distinct advantage over a commercial gallery: “We’re

When KIM and STEVE MACQUEEN moved to Burlington, Vt., from Florida last summer, Steve got all the media attention as new artistic director of the FLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS. It took Kim, a writer, a bit longer to make her mark, but she brought with her a diverse Kim MacQueen résumé that included work as a political/education/ crime reporter, lab researcher and writer or editor of everything from legal publications to magazines to websites. Then, she took a job teaching writing at Champlain College, and (full disclosure) has occasionally contributed to Seven Days. Next week, Kim MacQueen further “outs” herself in her new community with a discussion of her debut novel at PHOENIX BOOKS BURLINGTON. The title alone is likely to attract attention: Out, Out: A Novel of Women and Apes. MacQueen’s protagonist is a new mom with “postpartum depression, a listless marriage and COURTESY OF KIM

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hat’s going on in Rutland? No sooner had the venerable CHAFFEE ART CENTER opened a satellite gallery, the CHAFFEE DOWNTOWN ART CENTER, than Castleton College followed suit. This Friday the CASTLETON DOWNTOWN GALLERY holds a reception for its inaugural show of works by Castleton art faculty. “The Chaffee is great, but it’s the only gallery in town,” says BILL RAMAGE, director of visual arts programs at Castleton. “It would be good for Rutland if there is more than one — hopefully there will be more than two.” We can also hope that future galleries will avoid inserting the word “downtown” in their names. As it is, the Chaffee and Castleton “downtowns” are just around the corner from each other, on Merchants Row and Center Street Alley, respectively. In fact, the two are cooperatively presenting a current artist-talk series. Both locations are positioned to benefit from a pending neighborhood development called Center Street Marketplace. What’s planned is an interior courtyard park that will allow surrounding shops, restaurants and other businesses — including the Castleton Downtown Gallery — to “make their back door their front door,” as Downtown Rutland Partnership executive director MIKE COPPINGER puts it. The project is scheduled to break ground this spring, according to Ramage.

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not totally dependent on selling art, so we can experiment,” suggests Ramage. Whether the venue will get all wild and crazy remains to be seen, but for now its three-room quarters are hosting 40 works by 13 accomplished faculty members. Ramage says both on- and offcampus galleries will likely continue to present “mostly regional” artists. The original Chaffee, housed in a grand Queen Anne Victorian on South Main Street, exhibits works primarily by local artists but is closed for a few months for renovations. The downtown gallery’s exhibit, “Full House,” on view through March 23, assembles painters KATHERINE LANGLANDS, BRIAN SYLVESTER, DICK WEIS and JOHANNE DUROCHER YORDAN in the visual-art equivalent, presumably, of a very good hand in cards. The

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with its annual Art in the Park weekend fests in August and October. The rumor that Vermont has more visual artists per capita than any other state may or may not be true, but there are certainly enough to populate any number of new galleries in Rutland and around the state. Bring ’em on.

Castleton Faculty Exhibition, Castleton Downtown Gallery, Center Street Alley, Rutland. Reception March 15, 6 to 8 p.m. Through May 11. Info, 468-1266. “Full House,” paintings by four Vermont artists, Chaffee Downtown Art Center, Rutland. Through March 23. Info, 775-0356. chaffeeartcenter.org

a career in free-fall,” describes a release from Phoenix. But things pick up — and twist and turn — when she takes a job in a university laboratory that works with “languagecompetent apes” and is run by a brilliant-but-flawed primate biologist. It’s a unique plot, and one that “puts both apes and humans under the microscope,” according to a reviewer on IndieReader.com. Color us intrigued. PA M EL A P O L S T O N

KIM MACQUEEN Tuesday, March 19, 6:30 p.m. at Phoenix Books Burlington. Out, Out: A Novel of Women and Apes, Jungo Books, 212 pages. $15 paperback. Also available as an e-book. kimmacqueen.com

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current American culture. While Nero’s life seems tailor-made for opera — the despot murdered his half-brother, mother (with whom he had an incestuous relationship) and two wives before committing suicide at age 30 — Usher chose to focus on his “subcareer” as a singer, poet and musician who played the kithara, a large lyre. Nero longed for fame in the musical world of his time, and his obsession is meant as an ironic comment on Americans’ infatuation with celebrity singers today, according to program notes. One scene features an “American Idol”-like competition between Nero and other soloists who sing poems by Sappho, Alcaeus and others from the Hellenic repertoire that was popular in 55 A.D. “Nero never wanted to be emperor,” Usher explains, noting that the ruler was crowned at age 17. “He just wanted to be the equivalent of a modern rock star with his modern boy band.” Usher hopes the opera will one day be staged in Vermont, but it’s not the language barrier that makes that unlikely. As the composer points out regretfully, “It takes a lot of money to put on an opera.”

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mericans are writing new, intriguing-sounding operas all the time. In the last five years alone, operas about Walt Disney and John Brown have premiered, and a work based on author Annie Proulx’s story “Brokeback Mountain” will be sung next year. Of course, these operas are usually in English. But M.D. USHER, associate professor and chair of the classics department at the University of Vermont, and Oregon-based music professor John Peel were apparently looking for a bigger challenge. They decided to write an opera about Nero in the languages the first-century Roman emperor actually spoke: Greek and Latin. Selections from Neron Kaisar will premiere this week at Willamette University in Salem, Ore., where Peel is composer-in-residence and Usher used to teach. The title is a transliteration of Nero’s name as it appears in Greek. An opera in one ancient language and another dead one? Usher, the librettist, says the rarity of the enterprise was part of the draw. He previously collaborated with Peel on an opera oratorio in Latin, Voces Vergilianae, which was based on Virgil’s Aeneid and premiered in 1999. “We always wanted to collaborate again,” Usher says by phone, “and we thought Greek would be good because it hasn’t really been done before.” That is, aside from the efforts of two other brave souls he can think of: Greek native Mikis Theodorakis, who scored Aeschylus’ Oresteia in the mid-1980s (not to mention iconic films including Zorba the Greek); and the Pulitzer Prizewinning American composer Elliott Carter, who was reportedly working on a Sapphic song cycle before he died last November. “And us,” Usher adds. The Shoreham resident can speak both ancient Greek and classical Latin — “which is not Church Latin,” he specifies. The singers? Not so much. Usher phoneticized the libretto and Skyped with the performers to ensure they could at least pronounce their parts. “It was really quite an amazing experience to hear them speaking Greek, even though they didn’t know what they were saying,” he recalls. Ancient languages aside, Neron Kaisar is surprisingly relevant to

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entral Vermont artist Janet to support,” she says. She sums up likes to make things Embracing Art’s guiding spirit as “We’ve happen. She cofounded Barre’s got art, you’ve got walls; let’s dance.” To get the project off the ground, Van studio PlaCe arts, where she maintains a studio. She cofounded, Fleet and Bottinelli selected 13 recipiwith the late Marc Awodey, the Vermont ents — “women’s [groups] that deal with violence and abuse, and 10 environart Zine. She’s an active working artist who produces found-object sculptures mental organizations,” says Van Fleet. and installations, with a steady stream Each will have the opportunity to select one piece of work from of exhibitions to her those of the 14 artists credit. And she’s an ocparticipating so far. After casional blogger. But that, the organization is apparently Van Fleet responsible for communihad some extra time on cating with the artist and her hands, because now picking up the work. she’s launched, with Can the nonprofits sell fellow artist alexandra the donated artwork? Bottinelli, yet another JANEt VAN FlEEt Yes, Van Fleet says, volunteer enterprise: with this caveat: It can’t emBraCing art. Simply put, Embracing Art is about be sold at less than the retail value, and artists donating artwork to nonprofits. 50 percent of the proceeds must go to That is, art to hang on the walls. “It’s for the artist. In addition, she cautions, humanizing the workplace,” Van Fleet “People don’t realize how hard it is to explains. “We know that having original sell art.” Van Fleet expects that Embracing work in the workplace gladdens the Art will expand — both in contributors heart and opens up dialogue.” But aren’t artists always asked to and beneficiaries. As for the project’s give away work for charitable purposes? name, she explains, “The artists want Haven’t we all been to silent auctions to embrace the work done by all these where donated artwork sold for far less wonderful nonprofits. And we also want them to embrace having art in their than it was worth? All true. On the other hand, few art- lives.” m ists sell all their work, according to Van Fleet. “I realized I have a huge backlog of pieces in my studio, and it occurred For more info, visit embracingart. to me it would be nice to donate some blogspot.com. of this work to organizations I want Van Fleet

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et’s start with the bright side: There’s no indication that sex crimes involving children are more frequent than they used to be. What’s changed is, we’re hearing more now about scandals that were previously hushed up. The grim fact remains that the situation was, and is, pretty bad. The Penn State child sex scandal got a lot of press, as did the revelation of serial child molesters in the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts. You get the impression pedophilia is spreading like wildfire. Is it? Moral panic aside, probably not. Pedophilia is defined as persistent sexual attraction to children where the perpetrator is at least age 16 and the victim is at least five years younger. As such, it’s a subset of child sex crimes in general, which also include acts between kids of similar age (I can remember an eighth-grade horror story or two) and opportunistic, one-time offenses. Such distinctions may be academic or, as some critics have argued, irrelevant — it’s been estimated that nearly nine in 10 child molesters either meet the criteria for pedophilia at the time of the offense or eventually will.

But let’s not sweat those details. In theory, there should be two ways to get a fix on the prevalence of pedophilia: Count the molesters, or count the molestees. Unfortunately, collecting reliable numbers for either is as tricky as it sounds. Statistics on pedophiles are dubious for the obvious reason that cases typically come to light only as part of a criminal investigation or during psychological treatment. Studies of any type of sexual behavior based on selfreport are notoriously unreliable, and surveys of pedophilic tendencies surely are doubly so — this doesn’t seem like the kind of thing most people would admit to, even anonymously. That caveat having been made, here’s a sampling of the research:

• A 1989 study of about 200 male college undergrads found 5 percent admitted to masturbating to pictures of children, and 7 percent said they’d have sex with a child if they could get away with it. • A 1991 study found 3 percent of some 600 college men reported having had a sexual experience with a child when they were 16 years or older. • Lest you think this is strictly a male kink, a 1997 survey of more than 500 college women found that 4 percent had at some point had sexual experiences with a child at least five years younger. Just one problem: These women were on average only 12 at the time, meaning

We turn to the more important question: How many children do pedophiles victimize? Here, too, it’s difficult to say — the numbers reported in different studies simply don’t match up, possibly in part because different types of sexual abuse are often conflated. For example, a 2007 report on pedophilia from the Mayo Clinic cites a survey of 1500 Canadian young adults that found nearly a third of the women and a sixth of the men had experienced unwanted sexual contact before they were 17. Those are alarming numbers. But the report goes on to say, “Most of the one-time offenses reported by females were committed by another adolescent of similar age.” Is that bad? Absolutely it’s bad. But it’s not pedophilia. Likewise, a 2010 study says, “There have been marked declines in … childhood exposure to violence and abuse from the early 1990s to the recent past,” and as proof gives a long list of indicators, one of which is a 53 percent drop in proven sexual-abuse cases. However, when you dig into the guts of the study, which compares the results of two telephone

surveys of violence involving children in 2003 and 2008, you find two things. First, kids’ reports of sexual abuse by adults, as opposed to by other kids, have declined only modestly. Second and perhaps more significant, the incidence of such reports is small, around 0.3 percent. Reports of other types of abuse, such as flashing and statutory rape, are more common, in the 1 to 3 percent range; arguably some of this qualifies as pedophilia. (For what it’s worth, they’re trending down.) One percent or even a third of 1 percent is a lot when spread across the whole population. But there’s little sign of a massive unrecognized problem. Given the state of the data, we can’t draw any definite conclusions, so let’s just call the following observations. It seems reasonable to say pedophilia is one of those ineradicable but not especially common impulses that, unlike other forms of sexual and child abuse, has never been widely tolerated. Given greater awareness and more precautions, therefore, one may suppose that, however often pedophilia occurs now, it’ll happen less in the future. That may be wishful thinking. But notwithstanding news reports, there’s no sign it’s happening more.

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hen the owners of a 5000-square-foot family home decide to downsize, where does all the stuff go? That’s a question Kyle Scanlon is well qualified to answer as he readies a stately Victorian in Burlington’s Hill Section for a tag sale. Scanlon, 43, co-owns K.C. Scanlon: Vermont Estate Sales & Transition Services with his wife, Amie. Together they work with homeowners or their heirs to empty out full houses, selling the possessions they can and donating or disposing of the rest. The Scanlons founded the business in 2007 and went full time once they hit 26 annual sales, in 2011. Last year, they held nearly 70. About the Victorian Scanlon says, “At this sale, we’ll have about 150 people lined up. We’ll have people getting here at about three-thirty in the morning … Think of Black Friday, but with only one sample of each item.” Among the items he expects to go fast are a Victorian beveled-glass mirror and the home’s original iron mailbox. Scanlon knows how to spot the treasures: A third-generation antique dealer, he spent a decade working as an appraiser at Williston’s Duane Merrill & Company. Unlike the auction business, K.C. Scanlon doesn’t stick to high-ticket items. “We sell Prada; we sell Gucci, Louis Vuitton,” Scanlon says. “And then we sell plenty of $1 bobbleheads, too. Anything you could want, we’ve sold or will sell” — totaling 80 to 90 percent of the average home’s contents. The Scanlons’ commission varies with those contents, “anywhere from 25 to 40 percent,” he says. After an initial evaluation, the couple present clients with a total sale estimate and commission rate, then get to work prepping the home and spreading the word.

Their business requires a lot of people skills, Scanlon says, from dealing with grieving relatives to building a following of buyers. The cutthroat competition of first-come, first-served tag sales isn’t for everyone, but some people wouldn’t miss them. Seven Days followed Scanlon through the house to find out how one person’s extra baggage becomes another’s treasure.

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Last year we did a sale and the family had been into the house, and they had a dumpster. My daughter and I went to look in the Dumpster, and we started pulling out handfuls of gold jewelry that they’d thrown away. They didn’t know how to deal with it. That happens quite a bit. SD: What do you do when you see an item you want yourself? KS: We never buy stuff beforehand at our sales. We just don’t feel that it’s fair to set a price on something and then to buy it. SD: What’s your favorite part of the job? KS: About ten o’clock [on the morning

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f your pockets are deep enough, there are some beauts to be snapped up in the Vermont real estate market. Looking for that classic Vermont gentleman’s farm? Nearly $8 million could buy an “exceptional family recreational retreat” on more than 1000 acres in Woodstock. For $1.9 million, you could own a cozy, 4670-squarefoot lakefront residence in Colchester with three bedrooms, two libraries and “wonderful open and airy living spaces.” And, if you’re really going for broke, $9.9 million could buy you a staggeringly huge, 18,095-square-foot getaway in Stowe that one real estate listing bafflingly describes as a “synergy of past and future” and a “carefree and efficient luxury residence.” If you’re dreaming of a piece of Vermont paradise to call your own, chances are there’s a house out there for you. And ready to help you find it is a small band of real estate agents who specialize in the luxury market and are adept at discussing the finer points of wine cellars, boat moorings and private tennis courts.

These agents say the luxury market is picking up. “I think that Vermont will always carry that mystique, and we will continue to have a cycle of people willing to bear the expenses of owning real estate in Vermont,” said Wade Weathers, the regional manager for residential brokerage at LandVest, a regional luxury real estate agency.

Of course, the luxury market — like all sectors of the real estate world — took a hit in the recent economic downturn. Prices dropped between 25 and 30 percent for high-end properties. In fact, according to Weathers, the high-end real estate market started to shift before most Americans even knew a recession was on the way. “We actually started to see a change in 2006,” he said. “Buyers began to get

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nervous. They follow the stock market … and they’re always ahead of the curve.” In particular, LandVest saw its secondhome market — which had traditionally made up 70 percent of the company’s sales — slow precipitously. Buyers who might otherwise have been interested in second homes sat on the sidelines and watched, Weathers said, until the financial forecast began to improve. Even now, some of those buyers — in their fifties and sixties — find themselves with fewer “earning years” ahead of them, and a second-home purchase seems less enticing. And, just as markets are always shifting, so are buyers’ preferences in swanky real estate. Weathers specializes in waterfront properties and classic gentleman’s farms. While the waterfront homes are still extremely desirable, he said, those end-ofthe-road farmhouses are less so than in the past. Buyers today want turnkey properties on a ski slope or the water, where they have access to “instant-gratification” recreation in their backyards, Weathers said. For an up-close-and-personal look at Vermont’s high-end real estate market, I headed to one of the state’s toniest playgrounds, Stowe, to meet with the Smith Macdonald Real Estate Group — aka mother-and-son realty team Peggy Smith and McKee Macdonald. Smith joked that she’s the “grande dame” of real estate in Stowe: She’s been in the business since the 1970s, when “high end” meant a modest (by today’s standards) ski chalet on Mountain Road. Macdonald grew up in Stowe, left Vermont to work in real estate in New York City for 10 years and returned two years ago to step into the family business. Last year, according to an annual report that Smith and Macdonald compiled, 11 percent of all residential sales in Stowe topped $1 million. They estimate that about a quarter of their own business is what they’d call the luxury market, which they define as houses costing at least $900,000. Like Weathers, Smith and Macdonald agreed that residential real estate sales — in both the high- and low-end markets — are bouncing back; total residential sales numbered 74 homes in Stowe last year, the same figure as in 2006 and 2007. The recession was a reality check for some in the market, particularly homeowners looking to unload their expensive properties. Smith and Macdonald noted that it took some sellers a few years to realize that their property investments might not translate into the asking prices they had envisioned. Meanwhile, in recent years prospective buyers have become savvier. “They wanted a deal — a real deal,” Macdonald said, and those buyers were willing to hold out on purchasing when they suspected they weren’t scooping up a luxury home at a (comparatively) low price. Both factors

— higher-than-realistic price tags and bargain-hungry house hunters — combined to slow down real estate movement during the worst years of the recession. The Stowe market reached the bottom in 2009, when just 47 residential properties traded hands.

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mith took the lead as we set off to explore two properties in Stowe’s upscale neighborhoods. Turns out, taking a spin through the town with her is almost as illuminating as poring over property-transfer data at the town clerk’s office. As she navigated the streets in her Subaru Outback, Smith casually pointed out various properties she’d sold and rattled off their prices: $2 million here, $3 million there. She’s been inside so many Stowe homes that, at dinner parties, Smith often finds herself showing other guests where the bathroom is. Our first stop was a nearly 7000-squarefoot home in the Stowe Hollow neighborhood, on the market for $2.15 million. The big selling point here, as Smith sees it, is the floor-to-ceiling windows. To demonstrate, she pulled up the blinds on a few, exposing views out to Stowe Pinnacle, but left the rest shut. With 56 windows in the house, it takes her a half hour to open the blinds before a showing — and just as long to close up shop afterward. Smith urged me into what she called her favorite room in the house: an enormous walk-in pantry the size of my own kitchen, where we both ooh’ed and ahh’ed over the storage space. We peered out at the decks that jutted from several of the house’s six bedrooms and admired a stone gazebo with an enormous fire pit. I trailed Smith as she padded around the house in her Darn Toughs, peeking into closets and bathrooms. Because the owners still used the vacation home, it remained fully furnished, with the occasional family photo or trinket displayed on a bedside table. The owners had, however, followed Smith’s advice to purge the house of most of their visible personal paraphernalia, making it as easy as possible for prospective buyers to envision themselves there without interference from another family’s private life. Even so, Smith confided, many buyers are picky and fickle, easily turned off by a property because they don’t like the current owner’s choice of sofa. That led Smith to mention a curious quirk of the luxury real estate market in her neck of the woods. Even clients who have near-boundless resources and easily could embark on dramatic renovations or redecorating sprees, she said, rarely want to take on a major project. If the tile or paint color in a home isn’t just right, many people will keep looking. Smith herself has never had that problem. An art teacher before she entered

the real estate biz, she said she’s always had a knack for imagining the design or decorating possibilities of a home. “I’m probably a frustrated architect,” she confided, after relating one story about taking a crowbar to a ceiling in one of her first residences to expose the beginnings of a cathedral ceiling. Her job, as she sees it, is to help buyers imagine the possibilities of a home. Our second stop was a $3.8 million home on 82 acres in the Taber Hill neighborhood — with some of the best views in Stowe, Smith promised. Sure enough, after we wound our way up the mile-long driveway, we were rewarded with a sweeping vista stretching from Camel’s Hump to Mt. Mansfield, with Trapp Family Lodge visible in the distance. A thick layer of snow hid the swimming pool, but Smith pointed out another recreational perk: a fronton, the walled court used to play a handball game known as Basque pelota. The house wasn’t more than 20 years old, but a few reclaimed posts and beams accented its open floor plan. This felt like a rustic mountain getaway, just right for an après-ski feast among friends, with a gorgeous wine cellar to augment the festivities. In Smith’s experience, she said, few of the high-roller buyers looking for real estate in Stowe gravitate toward historic properties. More modern homes, outfitted with luxury amenities, move faster on the market. Customers want at least five or six bedrooms — and as many bathrooms. They’re looking for open floor plans, “drop-dead views” and high ceilings — not exactly the forte of rambling old farmhouses. Nothing too quirky is desirable, Smith said. “Unless they find that perfect combination, they won’t buy,” she said. I asked Weathers, Smith and Macdonald if catering to an upscale clientele is any different from handling your average, middle-of-the-road real estate deal. Some clients are demanding, Weathers admitted, but they can also be incredibly gracious. “You can’t make a mistake,” he said. “I suspect it’s a lot like selling most anything, but you have to be careful all the way.” If anything, Smith and Macdonald said, some first-time homebuyers going for more modest properties need more “handholding.” High-end clients typically have a level of financial sophistication that makes the real estate agents’ jobs a bit easier. That said, Smith added, sales at both ends of the spectrum tend to be “as much work either way.” “You’re going to get the same level of service if you’re buying a $100,000 home or a $3 million home,” she said. One difference? With the former, you can probably count out the wine cellar. m

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Developers may dream about Burlington’s perfect peninsula, but the church says no — for now B Y KEV i N J. KE l l EY

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The diocese did recently sell one of its churches — Trinity in Poultney — because the local congregation had drastically diminished. The buyer was John Collier, a Vermont sculptor who specializes in biblical figures. Deaccessioning could also occur in the case of St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Richford, says Rev. Thomas Ely, the bishop of the Vermont diocese. “We’re in discussions with Preservation Trust of

Vermont about what will happen there,” he reports. That would leave the diocese with 47 congregations scattered around the state. And Ely estimates that about 6500 Vermonters — or roughly 1 percent of the state’s population — now identify with the Episcopal Church. “We’ve lost members, just like every religious denomination has,” the bishop says.

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146-acre peninsula jutting into Lake Champlain two miles north of the Church Street Marketplace hosts a school, a conference center, community gardens, hiking trails, a huge solar-power installation, one of the most famous geological features in Vermont and a magnificent set of stained-glass windows. Yet many Burlingtonians have never set foot there; some may not even know that Rock Point exists. This grand piece of private property is open to the public but doesn’t call attention to itself. Its owner, the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont, is a low-key entity associated more with discretion than ostentation. But the place represents considerable wealth — at least on paper — and is seen by some developers as prime real estate. “It’s a drop-dead location,” comments Ernie Pomerleau, president and CEO of the realty business that bears his family’s name. Any homes built there would carry prices “in the high end of the range,” he notes. The real value of Rock Point, including its dozen or so buildings, is listed by the Burlington assessor’s office at nearly $19 million. The Episcopal Diocese, which doesn’t pay taxes on that sum due to its religious status, would pocket quite a bonanza if it were to sell some or all of its land to a developer. And, God knows, the Episcopal Church could use the cash. The diocese’s flock is thinning. “Fewer people are involved” with the church than was the case a couple of decades ago, says Lynn Bates, whose official title is canon to the ordinary, which can be translated as assistant to the bishop. “Attendance at regular church services is not where the culture is right now,” she observes. “We struggle with budgets and operating expenses.” But does that mean the Church is looking to sell? Rock Point’s potential market value does give rise to temptation, Bates confesses. Officials and the faithful alike know that by selling just a few of Rock Point’s acres, the diocese could stop worrying about covering its roughly $1 million annual operating budget. It could also carry out all the deferred maintenance projects on its grounds. Church members “south of Route 4 and in northeast Vermont say this doesn’t mean anything to them, so sell it,” Bates says, gesturing to the expanse of land outside a window of the diocese’s nondescript office building. “Others say no, this means everything to me.”

Despite the challenges the church is facing, however, “There’s no interest on the part of the trustees in selling Rock Point,” Ely declares. “It’s not a part of our vision.” Financially, the diocese is “holding its own,” he says. “It’s stable.” Besides, church officials learned several years ago that many of the most attractive pieces of Rock Point could not be developed due to septic issues and topographical factors. They had considered selling, but “decided there was no point in proceeding,” Ely relates. Another disincentive to building on Rock Point, Pomerleau adds, is Burlington’s inclusionary zoning program, which stipulates that about 20 percent of residences in a multiunit development must be “affordable.” “That changes the potential value substantially,” the realtor says, “but that doesn’t mean it can’t be developed.” Ely’s residence is one of Rock Point’s hidden gems. The 120-year-old Bishop’s House, a brick building designed in the Tudor Revival style, stands about half a mile to the west of Burlington High School, down a one-lane road and amid a copse of bare trees and evergreens. Nearby is the Bishop Booth Conference Center. It was built about 30 years ago as a replacement for the Episcopal Institute, which was constructed in 1857 — three years after the Episcopalians originally came to Rock Point. That grand Gothic structure, first used as a school for boys and later as a meeting facility, was destroyed by a fire in 1979. The modern conference center rents — for $100 to $700 per day, depending on the number of people — to religious groups and secular institutions for staff retreats and other gatherings. Weekends are fully booked well into the future, Bates notes. That makes the center an important source of income, which the diocese would like to increase by renting the space more frequently on weekdays, she says. A refurbished farmhouse, now the home of the property manager, is situated near a few cabins that are used during the diocese’s summer-camp programs. Kids who attend become steeped in the church’s social mission, Bates notes. She cites as an example the relief work performed by Episcopalians around the state in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. The Episcopalians also have a progressive political agenda. Ely recently joined 29 other Episcopal bishops in a court action

challenging the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting same-sex marriage. City-administered community-garden plots lie close to the entrance to the property and along a portion of Institute Road lined with white pines and Norway spruce. Another kind of harvesting takes place alongside them. In what used to be an open field, AllEarth Renewables has built Burlington’s largest solar-power installation, consisting of 35 roughly 20-foot-tall sun trackers arranged in rows. The array is expected to produce about 205,000 kilowatt-hours of power a year — enough to account for two-thirds of the electrical energy used on the diocese’s property. Burlington residents familiar with Rock Point likely associate it with the imposing stone-and-wood building a

account for two-thirds of the current student body. Tuition, room and board is pegged at $53,500. Part of that sum pays 23 staff members to provide nearly one-on-one coverage for the students, most of whom are from out of state. About 85 percent of Rock Point graduates go on to college, Spirito says. He describes the school’s finances as sound but adds that he’s trying to recruit an additional eight students to increase income and to make maximum use of Rock Point’s resources. In addition to a well-equipped library with a dance floor at its center, the school’s attractions include a sugaring cabin that is a short walk from the main building. Its wood-fired evaporator boils sap gathered

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from buckets pegged to trees in Rock Point’s sugarbush. The cabin will be the site of a celebration on March 16 involving Rock Point’s students and community members. Burlington High School students will also be invited to the maple-sugar party as part of Rock Point’s efforts to collaborate with its neighbor, Spirito says. The diocese’s grounds offer some rich outdoor-education opportunities. For example, geologists as well as students trek out to the tip of the peninsula to view a dramatic section of the Champlain Thrust, a fault that runs 200 miles from southern Québec to New York’s Hudson Valley. Perhaps 10 yards into the lake, the aptly named Lone Rock pokes above the waterline. It was believed to be sacred to the Abenakis, who once hunted and fished nearby. It’s special still. “The diocese sees this as a sacred place,” Bishop Ely says, referring to all the property at Rock Point. Partly for that reason, he adds, “The whole issue of this land being developed is a non sequitur. It’s not going to happen.” m

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short distance up a hill from the main entrance to North Beach. Formally known as Bishop Hopkins Hall, it was built in 1888 as a finishing school for young ladies. It was reconstituted in 1928 as the Rock Point School, though it remained an allgirls institution. That female orientation is reflected in the design of the stained-glass windows found in the former Episcopal chapel inside the school. Beautifully crafted New Testament scenes put women in the forefront. The windows are probably original to the building, but their provenance is unknown, says Lawrence Ribbecke, a specialist in architectural stained glass who maintains a studio on Burlington’s Pine Street. Ribbecke probably would have been called on to make repairs on those windows even if his wife, Marylen Grigas, hadn’t taught English at Rock Point School for many years. Ribbecke says the quality of the unknown artisans’ work is in “the 99th percentile, right up with the very best.” The school, which is still owned by the Episcopal Diocese but is not religiously affiliated with it, today educates 27 students in grades nine through 12. “They’re bright and curious,” says school head C.J. Spirito, but many also present behavioral challenges linked to “anxiety, depression, high-functioning autism,” he adds. Boys

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Eden (Lamoille County) Eden (population 1152) wonâ€™t win any points for cosmopolitan hustle and bustle. But if peace and quiet are what youâ€™re seeking, you can find them in a converted barn with plenty of natural light, wood floors, a patio deck and exposed post-and-beam construction. The biggest selling point may be its natural setting: The 13-acre property includes a lakefront beach, apple trees, canoe dock and five acres of â€œstriking meadows.â€?

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Vermont is known for having some of the oldest housing stock in the nation. But if you’re seeking that new-paint smell, it would be hard to find a flat fresher than one in Thayer Commons, newly completed this year. A onebedroom apartment in the complex starts at $1300 — the upper edge of our price range — but boasts easy walking distance from “downtown North Avenue” (aka the Hannaford supermarket plaza), Leddy Park Arena, the Burlington Bike Path and Lake Champlain. Free gym, laundry and a “pocket park for pets” round out the deal. Sure, it was a drag losing the New North End Department of Motor Vehicles office, but that’s the price we pay for expanding Burlington’s sphincter-tight rental market.

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Some Vermonters may look down their noses at the blue-collar burg just across Lake Champlain. But for those who want a little more for their hard-earned cash and don’t mind a 518 area code, this two-bedroom, one-bath ranch on Cumberland Head in Plattsburgh is right on the money — and the lake. There’s a four-season room off a deck leading to a pool, two garages, a large living room and family room, a breakfast nook and spacious, updated kitchen, a master bedroom with two eight-foot closets, and internet and cable TV already installed. Throw in the large fenced yard for the hounds, and this one is a real deal. Downside: Add to your daily expenses $9.50 for the ferry to Grand Isle.

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Burlington – For Lease Multiple suites available in the Maltex Building, located in the busy Pine Street corridor. Most with wood floors and exposed brick and beams. Ample free parking. On the bus line. Spaces range from 786 – 2,699 SF.

So Burlington – For Sale or Lease Stand-alone medical/office building in a great location! Layout consists of 4 exam rooms, 1 large office, bathroom, break room, waiting & reception areas and full basement for storage. 2 curb cuts. Parking included. Tremendous signage!

So Burlington – For Lease Retail space available on Dorset Street! Amenities include a dedicated entrance, lots of on-site parking, excellent signage and huge daily traffic counts. Located next to Small Dog Electronics and Barnes & Noble shopping center. 2,300 +/- SF.

So Burlington – For Lease Multiple office suites available in the Twin Oaks office complex. Suites range in size from 963 SF – 5,000 SF. Great exposure, signage and location. Minutes to I-89, shopping, restaurants, and health club. Parking included.

Shelburne – For Sale Unique opportunity to own in Shelburne! Stand-alone warehouse/retail/office building available for sale. 3,300 SF on 1.4 acres. Good location. Parking included.

Rutland – For Sale or lease 5,400 +/- SF diner/restaurant for sale or lease. Fully equipped on 1.6 acres, includes 65 +/- parking space. 126 seats. Built in 1996. Great location! Daily traffic counts over 16,500.

So Burlington – For Sale Prime Shelburne Road real estate for sale! Property consists of 3 acres and is located at a lighted intersection. Great opportunity for investors, developers and owner occupiers. Currently set up as a car dealership.

Colchester – For Sale or Lease Commercial condominium. An amazing opportunity, in a convenient Malletts Bay location! Beautiful space in Harborside Professional Building. Nicely laid out space with hardwood floors, skylights, partial lake views and onsite parking are just some of the many great features of this condo. 1,600 +/- SF.

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avid Mamet’s Race, now playing in a powerful, professional production at Northern Stage, lays down a challenge: Arrive with an open mind, then learn how closed it really is. In a law firm’s conference room, a rich white man, Charles, seeks legal representation after being accused of raping a black woman. The two male attorneys — Henry, who’s black; and Jack, who’s white — are not eager to take the high-profile case, but they are lightning-quick to demonstrate how truth is irrelevant and perception is everything. It’s a lesson they also seem bent on teaching newly hired Susan, a young black woman fresh from an Ivy League education. And so Mamet launches his observations on race from an elegant and well-constructed framework. Using a legal setting makes judgment central. But judgment may contain deep-seated self-deception, because facts are more likely marshaled

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into place to affirm a belief than to reach a fair conclusion. Preoccupied with winning, these attorneys are less keen on serving a client than on brutally assessing how evidence can be manipulated. The legal system renders shame and guilt public, while a law office is like a courtroom’s backstage, where arguments receive their first trial. Race is not the play’s only topic. Three polarizing dynamics are at work here: black/white, rich/poor and male/female. Each has the power to shape beliefs. On the male-female axis, Mamet skillfully explores how we’re individually predisposed to view rape. It’s a crime of violence, but also of communication and intent, and there’s no forensic trace of those. Into that vacuum fly presumptions, crowding out facts. For some people (mostly women), a charge of rape must be true, because what woman would risk degradation to lie? For other people (mostly men), women want to have it both ways

— to tease and consent and then to punish. All of us are inclined toward one of these views; rape is a story we know in advance. Mamet’s fervent despair about humanity is unleashed through acerbic speech as lawyers and client construct walls of words that are more about power than justice. These are characters who never doubt themselves; each suffers from the need to be the smartest person in the room. The intellectual sheen of the play is intoxicating and stimulating; ideas explode like fireworks. But viewers should be prepared for a vigorous 90-minute journey, without intermission. Race demands intense concentration from the audience as well as the actors. Director Maggie Mancinelli-Cahill’s vision is true to key Mamet tenets: Sentimentalize nothing, show characters burying emotion and let naturalistic language lead. She establishes an exhilarating pace and allows the energy of the ensemble to supply the drama. This is no whodunit,

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is perfect. For Mamet, revelation has no power to transform. Shelley Thomas plays the protean Susan by allowing every facet of the character to glisten equally. Is she a sociopath or a heroine? An underestimated grandmaster who manages to checkmate Jack, or an innocent incompetent who knocks over the chessboard? Thomas nurses all of Mamet’s ambiguities and never allows one overriding interpretation to emerge. Ken Goldstein’s set is a majestic display of power, in keeping with what’s at stake here for lawyers and client. The opulent conference room is a sanctuary with floor-to-ceiling law books, hardwood flooring and a burnished conference table that conveys the serene rewards of wealth. The lighting, by Deborah Constantine, establishes mood unobtrusively and contributes to neat scene transitions. Carolyn Walker’s costumes are noteperfect. There’s just enough bravado in the black lawyer’s suit, just enough opulence in the client’s; a dare-you red tie for the white lawyer and a double-dare-you red and black ensemble for the female lawyer. It’s Mamet’s confrontational style to include adult language. It’s used to artistic effect here but may offend some. The play is beautifully constructed, and audiences may find themselves reviewing its layers for a long time after leaving the theater. A subtle undertone of the rape story echoes, for instance, in white-male- employer Jack’s treatment of black-female-employee Susan. Us-versusthem thinking emerges everywhere. Mamet is neither kind nor hopeful, but he does a remarkable job of listening to the world and reporting. m

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and there’s no conventional, plot-based tension because Mamet scrupulously leaves every action ambiguous. The conflict hinges on how people deceive themselves. With keen attention to Mamet’s musical dialogue, Mancinelli-Cahill conducts a quartet. Each note is sounded and left ringing until we reach a final chord. What’s resolved is not the question of race but the melody of Mamet’s ruminations on the subject. The play premiered on Broadway in 2009, in a production that Mamet himself directed. Race is now in its first regional release, and Northern Stage’s polished production delivers nuance and intensity. The actors, all members of the Equity Actors Association, are superb at bringing the playwright’s vision and dialogue wto life. As Jack, Timothy Deenihan maintains a coiled energy that reveals his character’s immense will to control. Quick to parry and always ready to thrust, Deenihan has a fencer’s finesse and makes every move look effortless. His elegant physical presence, matched with Mamet’s cunning, renders Jack the kind of beautiful and terrifying creation that’s riveting to behold. Deenihan delivers Mamet’s naturalistic dialogue brilliantly. Kevin Craig West gives Henry the supreme confidence of knowing exactly what he believes and where the white world will set limits on him. The ace up his sleeve is that he can outthink what he can’t outrun. His operatic deposition on the state of race relations ends with a flourish. “What can you say to a black man about race?” he asks. “Nothing,” client Charles knows enough to answer. West plays Henry as a man using likability to mask fury. His abundant charm soothes but leaves one wary of the anger beneath. As Charles, Wynn Harmon quietly oscillates between impervious hauteur and regret. Mamet’s steadfast ambiguity about the character’s guilt or innocence leaves Harmon the difficult task of carving a convincing ice sculpture, for no soul will emerge inside. When Charles realizes that his black college pal may have hated him all along, Harmon gives a delicate shiver and nothing more. The restraint

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f you lived in the New York area in the past 30 years, chances are you tasted a cake from Desserts by David Glass. Beginning in the 1980s, many a shopper discovered the rich, creamy marvels of the chocolate-truffle cake in elegant black boxes sold at stores such as Zabar’s, Stew Leonard’s and even Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods and Canadian supermarket chain Loblaws. But how many know the secret that David Glass, who now lives in Colchester, shares about his namesake desserts? “It’s Vivie who actually knows how to bake,” the former caterer says of his wife. “I can’t bake for shit.” David Glass admits he is responsible for the celebrated chocolate cake recipe, which he learned in the 1970s while working as a nouvelle cuisine chef at Michelin-starred restaurants in France. But it was Vivie Glass who created most of their brand’s most popular delicacies, from the Ultimate New York Cheesecake to the uncommonly veggie-heavy Rum Raisin Carrot Cake. The Glasses moved from Simsbury, Conn., into their Colchester farmhouse last November. In Vermont, David Glass has been winning new fans with his Drunken Love Bites, a line of truffles infused with alcohol that he markets locally through the Desserts by Vivie and David Glass Facebook page. He and Vivie have both been working on books, too; she just self-published her first e-book, Vivie and David Glass’ Delicious Desserts: A Recipe Book Filled With Sweetness, Love and Loss. But one thing the couple will not be producing in Vermont is their famous cake. That chapter of their lives ended last July, four months to the day before they left for the Green Mountains, when their 21-year-old son, Adam, died suddenly of papillary fibroelastoma, a tumor in the heart.

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In her book, Vivie Glass explains, “David and I could no longer continue our business. Every dessert was tied into memories of Adam, and every cake I made in the ensuing weeks was seasoned with tears.” A talented cook from a young age, Adam worked on the family’s cake production line in their Connecticut factory whenever he could take the time away from high school or college. Vivie says that some of her fondest memories of her son are of working 14-hour days together pressing cheesecake crusts. Adam always encouraged his mother to write a cookbook, Vivie recalls. She began testing recipes on July 6, the day after his passing. The emotionally evocative book, composed of cake recipes and the family stories that inspired them, is both a tribute to Adam’s idea that the cakes belonged to the customers who loved them, and a stirring eulogy for the young man himself. “I wanted people to remember Adam for the really amazing, amazing person he was,” Vivie says. “He was hard to confine to pages. If you saw him, you would feel like his presence was so physically powerful, how could he even confine himself to his body? He managed somehow.” Adam also figures in the sequel. When not at her day job assisting disabled adults at Champlain Community Services, Vivie is working on a new recipe book, focused on the stories of the mostly Latin American workers who helped make the Desserts by David Glass bakery a family. The final book in Vivie’s planned trilogy will feature stories of customers who were touched by their cakes. One woman said the sweets got her through her cancer battle, Vivie recalls; another reported that the Glass’

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in Mendon, Vieira cooked in Paris and Tuscany, where he absorbed a respect for product. At Nika, he says, that means using whole, local animals, but also looking beyond Vermont for top-flight products, including carefully chosen wines at affordable prices. Schmidtberger says he hopes Nika will be a destination for romantic five-course dinners. But he also plays up the wine bar aspect, which includes a menu of snacks such as meaty skewers and housemade potato chips perfect for an evening of grazing. Once dinner is running smoothly, the team will roll out lunch, which will feature sandwiches of house-roasted meats on oven-warmed rED hEn BakInG comPany breads. Breakfast service will come next, with high-quality coffee and espresso paired with Euro-style pastries and breakfast sandwiches. What of the Williston thrEE tomatoEs trattorIa? While it’s keeping its name, Vieira says he’s also changed the menu there to reflect his simple, local ethos.

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poutine with maPlEBrook fInE chEEsE cheddar curds; and a VErmont salumI sausage sandwich with onions, peppers and mustard. Bar staff tap Vermontmade spirits for several signature cocktails, including an Elder Negroni with Barr hIll GIn. Let’s hope everyone makes their flights on time.

For 21 years, thrEE tomatoEs trattorIa was a Church Street institution. Now, on March 25, a new era will begin with the opening of Nika. The new restaurant is the brainchild of the men behind Three Tomatoes, roBErt mEyErs and jIm rEIman, in collaboration with new partner and operations director ryan schmIDtBErGEr and chef DEnnIs VIEIra. Renovations began earlier this winter for a mashup of new and old that features stone and cork walls and a gleaming new bar. The wood-burning oven remains, seasoned with more than two decades of use, but has a new brick face. Notable as the hip new basement space is, Nika’s biggest deviation from Three Tomatoes is in its cuisine. While the old restaurant focused on Italian flavors, Nika doesn’t stop with those but casts its net farther across the Mediterranean into Morocco, Turkey and Sicily. Highlighting the Portuguese tastes he grew up with is dearest to Vieira’s heart. “Portuguese flavors are not even new and up-and-coming yet — they’re just good food,” says the first-generation American. Though the chef isn’t yet ready to share his menu, he mentions housemade Portuguese sausages and his grandmother’s octopus recipe. He also speaks excitedly of fare from elsewhere in the world, such as whole, roasted fish with Provençal artichoke stew and homemade ravioli filled with boudin blanc. Before making his name as a Vermont chef at the rED cloVEr

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the place appears even airier and more elegant than its urban counterparts. Vermont’s third Skinny Pancake opened in the airport’s north terminal on Saturday after “a long night” of final prep, says BEnjy aDlEr, who co-owns the growing chain with his brother, jonny. A second location in the south terminal is likely to open next week. So far, the company has hired 28 people to staff the two spots and a chuBBy muffIn counter that opened in the departure lounge a few weeks ago. Topped with the words “Local • Really,” the lengthy, bilingual (English and French) menu sports breakfast selections heavy on eggs, caBot cheddar and VErmont smokE anD curE bacon. Sweet and savory crêpes anchor the lunch and dinner menu, among them the familiar

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Hot Apple Crispy, with local apples, honey and whipped cream, and the Johnny Crêpe, with locally raised pulled pork, cheddar, caramelized onions and house barbecue sauce tucked into a ButtErworks farm-cornmeal crêpe. (Both cost about 25 percent more at the airport than downtown.) Other noshes include salads; panini; a local cheese board; pork wontons stuffed with locally raised pig and local root slaw, served with a spicy apricot dipping sauce;

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Grease a solid-bottom, six-inch cake pan with nonstick spray. make sure to hit every spot! preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Carefully place a 9-by-13-inch cake pan in the oven. Fill with hot water so the pan is filled about one third of the way up. Let the water heat while you prepare batter. Over a double boiler on medium-low heat, melt the semisweet chocolate, unsweetened chocolate and butter together, stirring with a whisk until the mixture is absolutely smooth. meanwhile, put the whisk attachment on a stand-up mixer. mix the eggs and sugar on medium speed until well incorporated. You don’t want to mix this on high speed or too long or the cake will not have the proper texture. Just mix it enough so that when you rub a bit of the eggs and sugar between your fingers, the sugar feels dissolved. now pour the melted chocolate and butter into the eggs and sugar. Beat on medium until it is fully incorporated. Last, add the cocoa powder on low speed. when it disappears, turn to high speed briefly to make sure it is thoroughly mixed in. pour the batter into the prepared six-inch pan. Carefully place the pan into the 9-by-13-inch pan that is in the oven. Check the level of hot water: It should come halfway up the side of the cake pan. If it does not, add a little more. Do not let the cake pan float! Bake for 55 minutes to one hour. The top of the cake should have formed a paperthin crust and will have cracked slightly in the center. remove from oven and let cool to lukewarm. place a six-inch cake pad over the cake and, gripping the cake pad, flip the cake over. rap the edge of the pan sharply one or two times on a countertop. It should come out easily. trust me — I used to make 2000 of these a day! Let cool completely. You can wrap the cake and freeze it, but it is delicious eaten that same day at room temperature, as David and I discovered when I was testing the recipe for this cookbook.

white-chocolate cream was the last thing her father was able to eat. While Vivie chronicles their famous business — which went bankrupt in 2009 — David makes his Drunken Love Bites. In its own way, he says, the process has helped him heal: “They’re very therapeutic, especially when the batter turns out just perfect and you have the perfect truffle.” Like David’s cake, these near-liquid truffles are based on a beloved French delicacy. Bite into the thin jacket of dark chocolate, and they burst with an alcoholic burn of Calvados or raisininfused rum. Every other week, David

notifies subscribers to his email list of his latest flavors. Truffle fillings have ranged from mixed drinks such as White Russians and salty Margaritas to straight-up gin or Maker’s Mark. Vivie insists that her husband include some virgin options. She prefers to enjoy her Love Bites plain, perhaps with a bit of booze on the side. David Glass has flavored his Love Bites with peanut butter and smoky bacon from North Country Smokehouse. A new convert to the banh mi sandwiches at 99 Asian Market in Burlington, he says he hopes soon to experiment with a truffle flavored with durian, the notoriously fetid Asian fruit. “If I can sneak it in the house past Vivie,” he jokes.

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from their home kitchen. When the Glasses met in 1981, they made cakes for commercial sale illegally on the bottom floor of their run-down, historic home in Hartford, Conn. In Vermont, David can make his Bites legally. The couple still marvels that Vermont bakers are spared the overhead cost of hourly fees for production space. “To do this out of our home is really a blessing,” Vivie says. “Vermont is doing a really smart thing to stimulate the economy.” The ease of working at home has called her back into the kitchen, too. The Glasses hope to earn a spot at this summer’s Burlington Farmers Market, where David plans to sell his Drunken Love Bites and maple caramels, made from grade C syrup provided by neighbor Poor Farm Sugar Works. Vivie is holding to her promise that she’ll no longer make her famous cakes. She’ll focus instead on bar cookies, including lemon bars with lemon curd and almond bars with raspberries and marzipan, using local ingredients when possible. The couple has been especially impressed with cream from Strafford Organic Creamery. And, though nothing will ever replace their youngest child, the Glasses will soon begin to nurture new life — in the garden of their 10-acre property. Surely Adam would be proud. m

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With a height difference of more than a foot between them, sassy, curlyhaired Vivie and wry, placid David don’t look like a natural set. But throughout their interview at Dobrá Tea, the two hold hands and lovingly gaze into each other’s eyes. Vivie says that when their children were small, they called each other on the phone every 15 minutes while she tested recipes at home. The calls aren’t much less frequent now. Though the Glasses’ marriage has always thrived, this is a third act for their dessert business. In 2009, the economic downturn forced the couple to file for bankruptcy and close their Connecticut factory after 28 years. That story will be told in David Glass’ upcoming e-book, The Rise and Fall of Desserts by David Glass, or How Not to Run a Small Business. Later, the Glasses started a smaller, weekend-only business in an office park where they shared equipment with another baker. That ended a few weeks after Adam’s death, when the couple resolved to move to Vermont to be closer to the elder of their two remaining sons, Burlington musician Joshua Glass, and his daughter, Zoe. It was something of a homecoming for David, whose paternal grandparents once owned a dress shop in St. Albans. Another fortuitous aspect of the move is that it frees them to work

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Weinzweig, cofounder and CEO of Zingerman’s Community of Businesses in Ann Arbor, Mich. After his talk, guests will partake of tastings that pair local cheeses with fare from Vermont restaurants and producers. For example, chef MAx MACkInnon of PIstou will prepare a dish using cheese from ConsIDEr bArDwEll fArM, while JAn’s fArMhousE CrIsPs will pair with JAsPEr hIll fArM. Zepos’ own product, Essex St. Cheese, will be available for tasting, too. If cheese lovers are so inspired, they are welcome to praise the curds with a sonnet or haiku to be displayed on the “cheese poetry wall,” Stevens says. An apt elegy for Zepos.

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compatriot was Vermont cookbook author Molly stEvEns. A visit to Zepos’ home in San Francisco catalyzed the idea of a memorial event in the Green Mountains. “There are a lot of cheese makers here, and Daphne came to Vermont a lot,” Stevens remembers thinking. “She had a number of friends and mentees here … We should do something here and raise some money for the [Daphne Zepos Teaching Award].” Though Stevens says her original idea was “to sit around someone’s living room and pass the hat,” the event soon grew. AhEAD of thE CurD: A CElEbrAtIon of ChEEsE, fooD AnD flAvor will take place on Sunday, March 24, from 4 to 6:30 p.m. at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington. Advance tickets are required for the event, which will kick off with an address from cheese “rock star” Ari

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CeltiC Nights: All that glitters is green in this stirring production featuring Ireland’s top vocalists and most accomplished stepdancers. Paramount Theatre, Rutland, 8 p.m. $29.5038.50. Info, 775-0903. DaNCe to live DrummiNg: North and West African rhythms played on traditional instruments lead a multicultural celebration of creative movement. All Souls Interfaith Gathering, Shelburne, 7-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Info, 862-5017. eNglish CouNtry DaNCe: Old Stage Road provide music for an evening of creative expression by newcomers and experienced movers alike. All dances are taught. Elley-Long Music Center, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, introductory workshop, 7-7:30 p.m.; dance, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $8-10; bring a snack to share. Info, 899-2378. QueeN City taNgo miloNga: No partner is required for welcoming the weekend in the Argentine tradition. Wear clean, soft-soled shoes. Introductory session, 7-7:45 p.m.; dance, 7:45-10 p.m. North End Studios, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $7. Info, 877-6648. ‘the opuleNCe of iNtegrity’: Inspired by Muhammad Ali, Christal Brown incorporates boxing, hip-hop and martial arts into choreography for her company INSPIRIT. See calendar spotlight. A discussion follows. Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8-10 p.m. $6-20. Info, 443-3168. West Coast sWiNg DaNCe & lessoN: Scott Chilstedt leads a beginner’s session before a group dance of the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. No partner needed, but inside shoes required. Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 7-8 p.m.; dance, 8-10:30 p.m. $8-10. Info, 802 734-7531.

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QueeN City ghostWalk: BlaCk shamroCk tour: Local paranormal authority Thea Lewis leads an excursion dedicated to the infamous apparitions and favorite haunted pubs of Burlington’s Irish heritage. Burlington City Hall Park, 7-9 p.m. $20. Info, 351-1313 .

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‘amour’: An elderly couple faces a new reality after one of them suffers a stroke in Michael Haneke’s unflinching drama about long-term relationships. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:45 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600 . ‘koCh’: Neil Barsky’s 2012 documentary profiles three-term New York City mayor Ed Koch, known for being funny, combative and intensely private. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. $4-8. Info, 748-2600. projeCtioNs: reel-to-real CoNversatioN: Roko Belic’s compelling documentary Happy explores the emotion in different cultures and social classes worldwide. A discussion with local film buff John Bliss follows. Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts, Chester, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 875-1018. ‘the impossiBle’: Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor star in Juan Antonio Bayona’s gripping drama based on the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Town Hall Theatre, Woodstock, 7:30 p.m. $6-8. Info, 457-3981.

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fish fry: Locals fill their plates with fried haddock, baked potato, coleslaw and dessert. St. Paul’s Catholic School, Barton, 5-7 p.m. $5.959.95; call for takeout. Info, 525-6578. leNteN fish DiNNer: Neighbors gather for a shared meal of seafood, soup, salad and dessert. Children’s menu available. St. Augustine’s Catholic Church, Montpelier, 5-6:30 p.m. $6-10; free for ages 3 and under. Info, 793-4276.

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WoNDerful WiNg Night: The men’s auxiliary hosts a smorgasbord of this favorite finger food in flavor variations that please every palate, followed by live music from the Working Man Band. VFW Post, Essex Junction, 5-7 p.m. $4-7. Info, 878-0700.

health & fitness

avoiD falls With improveD staBility: A personal trainer demonstrates daily practices for seniors concerned about their balance. Pines Senior Living Community, South Burlington, 10 a.m. $5. Info, 658-7477.

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Drop-iN story time: Picture books, finger plays and action rhymes captivate kids of all ages. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 10-10:45 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. DuNgeoNs & DragoNs: Imaginative XP earners in grades 6 and up exercise their problemsolving skills in battles and adventures. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. eNosBurg falls story hour: Young ones show up for fables and finger crafts. Enosburg Public Library, 9-10 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. fairfax CommuNity playgroup: Kiddos convene for fun via crafts, circle time and snacks. Health Room, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 9-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. family movie: A science experiment goes awry when young Victor attempts to bring his dog Sparky back to life in 2012’s animated adventure Frankenweenie. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. greeN mouNtaiN Book aWarD Book DisCussioNs: Eager readers in grades 9 and up hear about some of the 2012-13 nominees, including Boneshaker, Divergent and Ghostopolis. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. imagiNatioN vaCatioN: tiNkeriNg With teChNology: Crafty kids work with John Fontanilles of Good Point Recycling to explore the mechanics of computers, telephones and more, then create masterpieces from the parts. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10:30 a.m.noon. Free. Info, 388-4097. isle la motte playgroup: Stories and crafts make for creative play. Isle La Motte Elementary School, 7:30-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. moNtgomery tumBle time: Physical fitness activities help build strong muscles. Montgomery Elementary School, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. mothers of presChoolers meetiNg: Moms share ideas and experiences in a supportive environment. Free childcare provided. Church of the Rock, St. Albans, 9-11 a.m. $4; free for first meeting; see stalbansmops.org for details. Info, 393-4411. sWaNtoN playgroup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. teeN teCh Week eveNt: Youngsters in grades 7 to 12 participate in tech-savvy fun, including an app scavenger hunt, prizes, games, memes and more. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 4-6 p.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. Write oN!: Budding wordsmiths ages 6 to 10 brainstorm ideas and spin a story or two. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 3:30-4 p.m. Free. Info, 223-4665.

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miDDleBury College orChestra: Andrew Massey conducts the spring concert, which features soloist Bruce Jia’ 16 and a composition by Pete Fitton ‘13. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

liSt Your EVENt for frEE At SEVENDAYSVT.COM/POSTEVENT The Woods Tea Co.: In a preview to St. Patrick’s Day, this energetic trio performs traditional Irish folk tunes, sea shanties and drinking songs. Richmond Congregational Church, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Info, 434-3654. VermonT YouTh orChesTra: Esteemed young performers play selected chamber music. Old Brick Church, Williston, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 655-5030.

seminars

LisTen up VermonT! Workshop: Librarian Anne Walker teaches participants how to use the free service to download audio and e-books onto their devices. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581. VermonT ChapTer of The naTionaL LaWYers GuiLd: poLiCe-enCounTers proGram: Attorneys Charles J. DiMare and William A. Nelson educate citizens about federal and state constitutional rights regarding search and seizure procedures. Great Room, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 2-5:15 p.m. Free; preregister; limited seating. Info, 872-0135.

talks

aViad haramaTi: The Georgetown University professor discusses the intersection of science, mind-body medicine and professionalism. Davis Auditorium, Medical Education Center Pavilion, Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, 10:3011:45 a.m. Free. Info, 656-7875. BurLinGTon irish heriTaGe fesTiVaL: Liam mCkone: Period music from the duo O’hAnleigh accompanies the author’s discussion of the role of Irish soldiers in the Civil War. Community Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, noon-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 863-3403. rueBen JaCkson: The Vermont Public Radio host presents “Melodic Recollections of Notable Musicians: Stories From the Stacks.” Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516.

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hiGh moWinG orGaniC seeds sprinG soCiaL: Horticulture enthusiasts gear up for the planting season with a seed swap, workshops and potluck dinner. High Mowing Organic Seeds, Wolcott, workshops, 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.; dinner, 5-6:30 p.m. Free; bring a dish to share and a personal plate setting. Info, 472-6174, ext.132.

art

CreaTiVe ComposiTion Workshop: Using pen, pencil and paint, Lydia Littwin leads a hands-on exploration of how line, shapes and color affect the emotional integrity of a piece of art. Davis Studio, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. $24 includes materials. Info, 425-2700.

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Bernie sanders: The Vermont senator hosts a town meeting, during which he joins a panel of environmental experts to discuss the impact of global warming on the state. Montpelier High School, 10 a.m. Info, 202-228-6492.

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Time Magazine voted it one of the top ten plays of 2012. A funny and heartfelt play about a grandmother and her grandson trying to ﬁnd common ground.

BurLinGTon irish heriTaGe fesTiVaL: CeLTiC CaTs sT. paTriCk’s daY CéiLí: UVM students perform modern and traditional dance pieces reflective of the Emerald Isle’s spirit. Dance Studio, UVM Patrick Gymnasium, South Burlington, 3-5 p.m. $7; $5 for area college students with valid ID. Info, 656-3131. The JoffreY BaLLeT: The acclaimed company performs Kurt Jooss’ anti-war piece, The Green Table, along with contemporary works by Christopher Wheeldon and Stanton Welch. Blanks will be fired from pistols during The Green Table. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $25-60. Info, 863-5966. ‘The opuLenCe of inTeGriTY’: See FRI.15, 8-10 p.m.

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Bike Jam: Gearheads help low-income Vermonters with repairs, while others craft jewelry out of old bicycle parts or help out around the shop. Bike Recycle Vermont, Burlington, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 264-9687. Queen CiTY GhosTWaLk: BLaCk shamroCk Tour: See FRI.15, 7-9 p.m. ‘VermonT raiLs’ modeL-Train shoW: Locomotive enthusiasts of all ages convene at the state’s largest display of this popular hobby. Champlain Valley Exposition, Essex Junction, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $1-5; free for children under 6. Info, 878-1135.

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‘amour’: See FRI.15, 5:30 p.m. ‘aYn rand & The propheCY of “aTLas shruGGed”’: Chris Mortensen’s 2011 documentary examines the renewed public interest in the outspoken author and philosopher’s controversial 1957 novel. Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center, Stowe Mountain Resort, 5 p.m. & 8:30 p.m. $12. Info, 760-4634. ‘i am in here’: Emily Anderson and Mark Utter premiere their short film about the latter’s life, the screenplay for which he wrote using

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‘17½’: See THU.14, 8 p.m. & 10:30 p.m. ‘4000 miLes’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m. ‘a midsummer niGhT’s dream’: Peter Young directs an unconventional interpretation of this Shakespearean comedy in this Echo Valley Community Arts and Shakespeare in the Hills coproduction. Haybarn Theatre, Goddard College, Plainfield, 7:30 p.m. $5-15. Info, 229-4191. ‘dirTY roTTen sCoundreLs’: See THU.14, 7 p.m. ‘neVer Before seen’: Area high school students perform original one-act plays as part of the Vermont Young Playwrights Project. A.R.T. Studio, Hannaford Career Center, Middlebury, 7:30-10 p.m. $7-10. Info, 382-1036. ‘“our ToWn” of WoodChuCk, VermonT’: Woodchuck Theatre Company presents George Woodard’s lighthearted play about smalltown life from days of old. Thatcher Brook Primary School, Waterbury, 7 p.m. $10. Info, 800-611-6045. ‘raCe’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m. ‘skin deep’: Gary Thompson directs Marble Valley Players’ production of Jon Lonoff’s comedy about romantic connections that may or may not blossom into love. West Rutland Town Hall, 7:30 p.m. $15. Info, 775-0903. ‘TarTuffe’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m. ‘The miraCLe Worker’: Blind, deaf and mute since infancy, Helen Keller learns to communicate through her teacher, Annie Sullivan, in this Champlain Valley Union High School production of William Gibson’s Tony award-winning play. Champlain Valley Union High School, Hinesburg, 7:30 p.m. $5-7. Info, 482-6991.

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supported typing. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Donations. Info, 655-4606. ‘Koch’: See FRI.15, 5:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘LittLe Birds’: Elgin James’ 2011 drama portrays the coming-of-age challenges faced by two small-town teenage girls who run away to Los Angeles. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 3 p.m. & 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. ‘Mystery at hathorne schooL’: Rose Curran’s short film, a collaboration between the Ilsley Public Library and Middlebury Community Television, features local actors. Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 2:30-3 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 623-6324, rkcstudios@yahoo.com. ‘the iMpossiBLe’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

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Benefit spaghetti dinner for tropicaL storM irene VictiMs: Neighbors convene over plates of hot pasta and help fund humanitarian trips to aid those affected by the natural disaster. North Ferrisburg United Methodist Church, 5-6:30 p.m. $7-8; $30 per family of five or more. Info, 425-2770. BurLington Winter farMers MarKet: Farmers, artisans and producers offer fresh and prepared foods, crafts and more in a bustling indoor marketplace with live music, lunch seating and face painting. Memorial Auditorium, Burlington, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 310-5172, info@burlingtonfarmersmarket.org. capitaL city Winter farMers MarKet: Root veggies, honey, maple syrup and more change hands at an off-season celebration of locally grown food. Gymnasium, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 223-2958, manager@montpelierfarmersmarket. com. MiddLeBury Winter farMers MarKet: Crafts, cheeses, breads, veggies and more vie for spots in shoppers’ totes. Mary Hogan Elementary School, Middlebury, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 247-4699, gildrienfarm@gmail.com. neW engLand pie BreaKfast & siLent auction: George Ray and Friends provide music for sweet eats at this dessert-first fundraiser for the Woodbury Community Library. Woodbury Elementary School, 8:30 p.m. $5-7; free for ages 6 and under. norWich Winter farMers MarKet: Farmers offer produce, meats and maple syrup, which complement homemade baked goods and handcrafted items. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 384-7447. rutLand Winter farMers MarKet: More than 50 vendors sell local produce, cheese, homemade bread and other made-in-Vermont products at this indoor venue. Vermont Farmers Food Center, Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 779-1485. seed sWap & potLucK: Area gardeners looking to diversify their summer bounty exchange non-GMO seeds before a shared meal. Memorial Auditorium Annex, Burlington, noon-3 p.m. Donations; bring a dish to share and personal place settings. Info, 999-2768. sugar on snoW: Sugar Ridge Farm provides samples of this traditional maple-syrup treat, along with homemade pickles and doughnuts at the Capital City Winter Farmers Market. Vermont College of Fine Arts Gymnasium, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Donations. Info, 223-2958. sugar on snoW: ferrisBurgh: Locals ring in the maple-syrup season with sap-boiling demonstrations, a pancake breakfast, live music and more. Dakin Farm, Ferrisburgh, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Info, 425-6726.

sugar on snoW: south BurLington: Maple syrup takes center stage at a celebration of Vermont’s famous flavor, which includes this traditional treat and family-friendly activities. Dakin Farm, South Burlington, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 658-9560. sugar-on-snoW party: Folks sample this traditional maple-syrup treat and watch sap boil down into Vermont’s liquid gold. Palmer’s Sugarhouse, Shelburne, noon-4 p.m. Free. Info, 985-5054. sushi saturday: Pop-up restaurant Himitsu Sushi transforms the tasting room with madeto-order offerings of this popular Japanese food. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 6-9 p.m. Cost of food and drink; cash only. Info, 223-1151.

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essex Junction recreation and parKs gaMe-shoW night: Teams of four to five players go head-to-head on general-knowledge questions and compete for prizes during “Survey Says!” Auditorium. Essex High School, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-1375.

health & fitness

Meditation for eVeryone: Vrisha Ishaya leads Ishayas Ascension techniques focused on breath, stillness and culitivating inner peace. Spirit Dancer Books & Gifts, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 660-8060. north country herBaLists Meeting: Members discuss ways to reduce inflammation with herbs, including readily available “weeds.” ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, 4-5 p.m. Free. Info, 518-314-9872.

kids

BurLington irish heritage festiVaL: chiLdren’s stories & crafts: Little ones learn about the Emerald Isle with traditional tales, a language lesson and themed activities. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10 a.m.-noon. Donations. Info, 865-7216. chris dorMan: The Music for Sprouts founder performs original tunes from the program’s curriculum, along with contemporary and traditional songs. Shelburne Town Hall, 11 a.m. $5-10 suggested donation per family. Info, 497-7217. faMiLy fun day: Troy Wunderle’s One-Man Circus and Christopher R.’s Flying Purple Guitar enliven this all-ages fête, which includes face painting, arts and crafts, and more. Union Elementary School, Montpelier, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 262-3292. hopstop: gerry griMo & the east Bay Jazz Quintet: In “All That Jazz and More,” kiddos ages 3 and up learn about different instruments and listen to various styles of the genre. Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 11 a.m. Free; limited seating. Info, 603-646-2010. Manga/aniMe afternoon fun: Creative minds in grades 6 and up explore the Japanese graphic novel and animation style. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 2-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956. Mascot March & easter egg hunt: Little ones hone in on hundreds of hidden eggs to add to their baskets, after which furry characters such as Champ and Monty the Moose strut their stuff through the mall. Center Court. University Mall, South Burlington, easter egg hunt, 11 a.m.; Mascot March, noon. Free; for ages 10 and under. Info, 863-1066, ext. 11. Music With raphaeL: See THU.14, 11 a.m. open tot gyM & infant/parent pLaytiMe: Tykes work up an appetite for snacks with feats of athleticism. Gymnasium, Bellows Free Academy, Fairfax, 10-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

saturday story tiMe: Families celebrate the written word as imaginative tales are read aloud. Phoenix Books Burlington, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. sWanton tuMBLe tiMe: Vivacious youngsters monkey around in an open gym. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426.

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‘an eVening of songs and arias’: Middlebury College Department of Music students travel from the baroque era to the present day with select compositions. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 8 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. BurLington irish heritage festiVaL shoWcase: Local talent — including UVM’s Celtic Cats, Handsome Molly and the Shillelagh Céilí Band — perform traditional music and dance. BCA Center, Burlington, 7:30-9 p.m. $10; free for children. Info, 603-986-4457. conrad saMueL Band: Lively tunes accompany a ham supper and dance party. Proceeds benefit Moose charities. Moose Lodge, St. Albans, dinner, 6 p.m.; dance, 7-11 p.m. $10 buffet; $4 for dance only; preregister. Info, 527-1327. deriVe, grady stiLes, raiL & ninosaKa: Regional bands perform punk rock and acoustic international music at this all-ages show. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518314-9872, rotagallery@gmail.com. fuLL circLe: This all-female group channels the luck o’ the Irish with traditional songs and

dances from the Land of Saints and Scholars. Phoenix Books Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. MasQuerade Jazz & funK Winter Music carniVaL: Jenni and the Jazz Junketeers headline this costumed celebration of local musical talent. Barnard Town Hall, 6-midnight. Free ($515). Info, 332-6020 . northeast KingdoM cLassicaL series: Pianist Rieko Aizawa gives a solo performance of works by Beethoven, Leoš Janáček, Henri Dutilleux and Edvard Grieg. South Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, 7:30 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. possuMhaW: Singer-songwriter Colby Crehan leads the Burlington-based band in an intimate performance of folk and bluegrass. Northwoods Stewardship Center, East Charleston, 7-9 p.m. $10. Info, 723-6551. the sKy BLue Boys: Dan and Willy Lindner evoke the “brothers duets” acoustic tradition of the 1930s and ‘40s with a varied bluegrass repertoire. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $10-12. Info, 748-2600. yuKon KorneLius With o.a.r.: Bassist Stefan Lessard of the Dave Matthews Band anchors a rare performance from the rock supergroup featuring members of the Barenaked Ladies, Guster, Twisted Sister and more. Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow, 4-9 p.m. $45. Info, 228-1600.

outdoors

MapLe MiLer: Teams of up to four athletes celebrate the sugaring season with a fun, 5-mile

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World Music Leave your suitcase at home. The VERMONT PHILHARMONIC FAMILY CONCERT takes listeners all over the map through song. “Music Around the World” is a kid-friendly introduction to classical compositions from Austria, Russia, Spain and beyond. There’s even one very local work by Harwood Union High School senior Cecelia Daigle. The globe-trotting theme extends to a slide show of student artwork, and young audiences are encouraged to bring homemade instruments and wear costumes inspired by the countries represented on the concert program.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC FAMILY CONCERT: Sunday, March 17, 2-3 p.m., at Barre Opera House. All ages. $5-15; $32 per family; free for youth who submit artwork, come dressed in costume or bring a homemade instrument. Art submissions must be received by March 11. Info, 4768188. vermontphilharmonic.org

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relay followed by a brunch showcasing the sweet stuff. Rock Point School, Burlington, 8 a.m.-noon. $10; $5-10 for brunch. Info, 863-1104. The GreaT Up and Over: Attendees snowshoe or cross-country ski up to Slayton Pasture Cabin for lunch, then down to the Matterhorn for live music and a multimedia presentation about the nonprofit Good Fun-d, which helps Tibetan-refugee children receive an education. See calendar spotlight. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, ski, 10 a.m.; presentation 2 p.m.; return shuttle bus, 3 p.m. $35; $65-85 per family includes trail pass, half-price rentals, lunch and shuttle bus. Info, 253-7088.

seminars

avian rehab WOrkshOp: FlUid Therapy & emaciaTiOn TreaTmenT: Using bird specimens, participants learn options for rehydration and how to treat starving patients. Vermont Institute of Natural Science, Quechee, 1-4 p.m. $24-30; preregister. Info, 359-5000, ext. 223. inTrOdUcTiOn TO pOWerpOinT: Participants learn the basics of the slide-show software and create a simple presentation with Ted Horton. Prior attendance at the Intro to Microsoft Word Workshop or program familiarity required. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 10-11:30 a.m. $3 suggested donation. Info, 865-7217. parenTs OF children WiTh special needs WOrkshOp: becOminG a cOmmUniTy resOUrce vOlUnTeer: Vermont Family Network hosts the first of two informative sessions for family members looking to offer support to others in similar situations. Attendance required at March 16 and 23 workshops. La Quinta Inn and Suites, St. Albans, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. Info, 353-3277. readinG The TarOT: Participants learn how to use these cards and the various ways to explore their meaning. October Tea Room, Burlington, 2-3:30 p.m. Free. Info, 651-1054. vcam access OrienTaTiOn: Videoproduction hounds learn basic concepts and nomenclature at an overview of VCAM facilities, policies and procedures. VCAM Studio, Burlington, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Free. Info, 651-9692. SEVENDAYSVt.com

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bOlTOn aFTer dark: After the sun goes down, skiers and snowboarders explore Vermont’s most extensive night-skiing terrain and watch movies from Meathead Films. Bolton Valley Resort, 4-8 p.m. $19 lift tickets; $2 refreshments. Info, 434-6804. hOWardcenTer cUrlinG challenGe: Teams slide stones across the ice toward a target at this fundraiser for the nonprofit organization. Cairns Arena, South Burlington, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. $500 per four-person team; free for spectators. Info, 488-6911. relay FOr liFe nOrdicsTyle: Live music energizes teams as they complete laps on cross-country skis or snowshoes at this overnight fundraiser for cancer research and patient care. Trapp Family Lodge Nordic Center, Stowe, 6 p.m.-8 a.m. Sun. Free for spectators; donations; see relayforlife.org for details. Info, 872-6304. reTrO-Gear TOUr series: Skiers explore pristine terrain on vintage equipment — ideally with relevant fashion to match. A percentage of the proceeds benefits the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum. Ole’s Cross Country Center, Waitsfield, 1 p.m. $10 plus trail pass; preregister. Info, 496-3430.

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Burlington irish heritage Festival: introduction to celtic instruments: Musicians Hilari Farrington and Benedict Koehle present the history and cultural significance of the bagpipes, harp and fiddle. Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11 a.m.-noon. Donations. Info, 863-3403. matthieu Paradis: The Parks Canada cultural resources conservation officer discusses socialand military-heritage preservation, as related to the War of 1812. Vermont Genealogy Library, Fort Ethan Allen, Colchester, 10:30 a.m.-noon. $5. Info, 238-5934 .

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Blue star mothers oF vermont chaPter meeting: Members of the nonprofit service organization for U.S. Armed Forces troops and veterans gather for support and to discuss current projects. American Legion, Colchester, 2-4 p.m. Free. Info, 951-1790.

dance

israeli Folk dancing: All ages and skill levels convene for circle and line dances, which are taught, reviewed and prompted. No partner necessary, but clean, soft-soled shoes are required. Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $2; free first session. Info, 864-0218, ext. 21. sacred circle dancing: Melly Bock leads participants through ancient and modern choreographed movements set to international music. No experience or partner required. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 978-424-7968.

fairs & festivals

antique aPPraisal Fair: Chuck Eaton, John Hooker, Wendy Hynes and Uriah Wallace evaluate family heirlooms and attic treasures at this fundraiser for the Oxbow Community Scholarship for Excellence. Oxbow High School, Bradford, 1-4 p.m. $4 per appraised item. Info, 866-3320.

food & drink

maPle ham dinner: Locals gather for a familystyle meal of baked ham, mashed potatoes, coleslaw and desserts featuring Vermont’s natural sweetener. Georgia Elementary & Middle School, St. Albans, 11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m. $6-12; free for children under 5. Info, 524-3330. sugar on snoW: FerrisBurgh: See SAT.16, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. sugar on snoW: south Burlington: See SAT.16, noon-4 p.m. sugar-on-snoW Party: See SAT.16, noon-4 p.m.

health & fitness

light Body sPiritual meditation grouP: Cynthia Warwick Seiler facilitates sesRT sions designed to attune ES YO FT the mind, body and soul. ATI AN A T RO N O Rainbow Institute, Burlington, 11 a.m. Donations. Info, 671-4569. roBert rex: The certified Rolfer leads stretching and bodywork modified for arthritis pain. Loose, comfortable clothing and yoga mat recommended. Healthy Living Market and Café, South Burlington, 11 a.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-2569, ext. 1. thrive center oF the green mountains: yoga samPler: Darci Whitehorne leads guided stretching and breathing exercises to improve strength and flexibility. Warm clothes, mat and blanket required. Gymnasium, Wallingford Elementary School noon-2 p.m. $10-20; preregister. Info, 446-2499. U

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‘amour’: See FRI.15, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. chandler Film society: Arranged marriage takes on new meaning in Ang Lee’s romantic comedy The Wedding Banquet when a gay landlord marries his female tenant to appease his nagging parents. Chandler Gallery, Randolph, 7 p.m. $9. Info, 431-0204 . ‘koch’: See FRI.15, 1:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. ‘the imPossiBle’: See FRI.15, 3 p.m.

‘17½’: See THU.14, 8 p.m. ‘4000 miles’: See WED.13, 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘a midsummer night’s dream’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. ‘dirty rotten scoundrels’: See THU.14, 7 p.m. ‘never BeFore seen’: See FRI.15, 7:30-10 p.m. ‘race’: See WED.13, 7:30 p.m. ‘skin deeP’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. ‘tartuFFe’: See THU.14, 7:30 p.m. the met: live in hd series: lake Placid: Soprano sensation Eva-Maria Westbrock stars opposite tenor Marcello Giordani in a broadcast production of Riccardo Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini. Lake Placid Center for the Arts, N.Y., noon. $12-18. Info, 518-523-2512 . the met: live in hd series: middleBury: See above listing. Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, noon. $10-24. Info, 382-9222 . ‘the miracle Worker’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m.

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‘Beauty and the Beast auditions’: Budding singers and actors ages 7 to 18 try out for Chandler’s annual July 4th youth musical. Chandler Music Hall, Randolph, elementary chorus, 12:30-1:30 p.m.; teen chorus, 1:30-2:30 p.m.; teen leads 2:30 p.m. $100-200 includes $10 nonrefundable audition fee; preregister; see chandler-arts.org for details. Info, 728-9878, betsycantlin@comcast.net. youth talent shoWcase: Rip Jackson directs a variety show performed by singers and instrumentalists from the Grace Church children’s choir and Joyful Noise. Grace Congregational Church, Rutland, 6:30 p.m. Donations. Info, 775-4301.

language

French conversation grouP: dimanches: Parlez-vous français? Speakers practice the tongue at a casual, drop-in chat. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 4-5:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

music

Bluegrass BeneFit: Corey Zink’s powerful baritone and Seth Sawyer’s soulful tenor lead their respective bands at this fundraiser for the

Compass School. Bellows Falls Opera House, 1 p.m. $15-20. Info, 380-4106. Burlington irish heritage Festival: Festival céilí: Vermont’s finest Celtic musicians and McFadden Academy of Irish Dance students lead a lively celebration of stepdancing that encourages audience participation. Mater Christi School, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. Donations. Info, 658-3992. ‘deBussy 1.5’: Renowned violinist Arturo Delmoni joins top Vermont musicians in selected works from the French composer, including “Sacred and Profane Dances.” Unitarian Church, Montpelier, 3:30 p.m. $10-25; free for ages 18 and under. Info, 793-9291. François clemmons & Friends: st. Patrick’s day concert: Audience members wear green to this spirited rendition of Irish tunes led by the vocals of the Middlebury College artist-in-residence. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168. hinesBurg artist series: anniversary concert: Rufus C. Patrick directs solo violinist Tatiana Trono and pianist Claire Black, along with other returning talent, in a varied program. St. Jude Catholic Church, Hinesburg, 4:30 p.m. $10-15; free for children under 12. Info, 482-3280. maPle Jam: The a cappella group lives up to its name with the sweet sounds of jazz harmonies in eight parts. United Church of Westford, 4-5 p.m. Info, 879-4028. solas: These acclaimed multi-instrumentalists elevate Irish folk music with traditional jigs and reels, as well as contemporary selections. See calendar spotlight. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 7-10 p.m. $21-40. Info, 863-5966. vermont Philharmonic & green mountain youth orchestra: Lou Kosma and Bob Blais direct the family concert “Music Around the World,” which features international selections and an original composition by student Cecilia Daigle. Barre Opera House, 2 p.m. $5-15. Info, 476-8188.

sport

adult PickuP dodgeBall: Participants heave rubber-coated foam balls at opposing team members during weekly games. Robert Miller Community & Recreation Center, Burlington, 1-3 p.m. $5; for ages 15 and up; players under age 18 need parental permission. Info, 578-6081. green mountain curling cluB: Players of all abilities sweep the ice every Sunday throughout the season. No special equipment is needed. Green Mountain Arena, Morrisville, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $12 per game with membership; $16 per game otherwise. Info, 399-2816. relay For liFe nordicstyle: See SAT.16. sPring rally in the valley: Adaptive and nonadaptive skiers and riders compete in friendly races at this benefit for sport and recreational programs for people with disabilities. Sugarbush Resort, Warren, registration, 11 a.m.; racing, 1 p.m. $25-30; see vermontadaptive.org for details. Info, 583-4283. Women’s PickuP soccer: Quick-footed ladies of varying skill levels break a sweat while stringing together passes and making runs for the goal. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $3; for women ages 18 and up. Info, 864-0123.

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Burlington history Presentation: Local historian Gary De Carolis details the Queen City’s past from the days when Algonquin and Iroquois

Nations ruled to Ethan Allen, with several key events in between. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 2 p.m. Free. Info, 865-4556. PuBlic action on Banking Practices: Vermont Interfaith Action presents local options for managing congregation finances. First United Methodist Church, Burlington, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 651-8889.

theater

‘4000 miles’: See WED.13, 2 p.m. ‘a midsummer night’s dream’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m. acting/theater WorkshoP: Veteran performer Ethan Bowen teaches a series of intensive sessions that explore acting essentials and his “serious fun” technique. Spice Performing Arts Studio, Rochester, noon-3 p.m. $25. Info, 767-4903 . ‘dirty rotten scoundrels’: See THU.14, 2 p.m. ‘race’: See WED.13, 5 p.m. ‘the miracle Worker’: See FRI.15, 2 p.m.

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standuP comedy PerFormance: Two months of studying under Josie Leavitt culminates in a live show for rookie comedians. FlynnSpace, Burlington, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation . Info, 863-5966.

community

reading With Frosty & Friends theraPy dogs: Animal lovers bring a book and read to canines who comfort. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister for 10-minute individual sessions. Info, 878-4918. relay For liFe inFormational meeting: Participating teams learn more about the nationwide June event that raises money and awareness as the world’s largest walk to end cancer. American Cancer Society, Williston, 5:306:30 p.m. Free. Info, 233-6776.

film

‘amour’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. ‘koch’: See FRI.15, 5:30 p.m. ‘nine to Five’: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton star in Colin Higgins’ comedy about three female employees who trap their chauvinistic boss in his house and take over the office. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘the imPossiBle’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. tournées French Film Festival: This celebration of francophone cinema features Jessica Hausner’s award-winning drama Lourdes, about a disabled woman’s journey to the pilgrimage site of the same name. Room 101, Cheray Science Hall, St. Michael’s College, Colchester, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 654-2835, lclerfeuille@smcvt.edu.

health & fitness

avoid Falls With imProved staBility: See FRI.15, 10 a.m. childBirth reFresher class: Parents-to-be join other couples to review the physical and emotional aspects of giving birth, along with relaxation and breathing techniques. Franklin County Home Health Agency, St. Albans, 7-9 p.m. $25. herBal consultations: Betzy Bancroft, Larken Bunce, Guido Masé and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism evaluate individual constitutions and and health conditions. City Market, Burlington, 4-7 p.m. Free; preregister at info@vtherbcenter.org. Info, 861-9757.

Qi gong: Jeff Cochran hosts a session of breathing-in-motion exercises. ROTA Gallery, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 7 p.m. $3-10. Info, 518-314-9872.

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Alice in noodlelAnd: Youngsters get acquainted over crafts and play while new parents and expectant mothers chat with maternity nurse and lactation consultant Alice Gonyar. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10-11 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. Music With RAphAel: See THU.14, 10:45 a.m. Ru12? RAinboW ReAding houR: LGBTQA families come together for stories and activities. Bent Northrop Memorial Library, Fairfield, 6-7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-7812, sam@ru12.org. shAke YouR sillies out: Tots swing and sway to music with children’s entertainer Derek Burkins. JCPenney Court, University Mall, South Burlington, 10:35 a.m. Free. Info, 8631066, ext. 11. south heRo plAYgRoup: Free play, crafting and snacks entertain children and their grownup companions. South Hero Congregational Church, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. stoRies With MegAn: Preschoolers expand their imaginations through tales, songs and rhymes. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 1111:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. sWAnton plAYgRoup: Kids and caregivers squeeze in quality time over imaginative play and snacks. Mary Babcock Elementary School, Swanton, 9:30-11 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. teen AdvisoRY boARd: Teens gather to plan library programs. Yes, there will be snacks. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 3-4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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AngelA pAtten & dAniel lusk: The renowned local poets read from past collections and current work. The Writers’ Barn, Shelburne, 7 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 985-3091. bAsic coMputeR skills: Community members enter the high-tech age and gain valuable knowledge. Tracy Hall, Norwich, 12:30-2:30 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3403. veRMont touRisM teAM RoAdshoW: Members of the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing present the latest research on the in-state destinations and spending of travelers. Middlebury Ambulance Center, 2:30-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister at vermontpartners.org. Info, 828-3683.

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Rick SteveS: In a multimedia presentation, the PBS travel guru taps into his gift for storytelling with an engaging account of his European journeys. Flynn MainStage, Burlington, 8 p.m. $60. Info, 863-5966. ‘StaRt the conveRSation: take the next Step. it’S time.’: The Visiting Nurse Association hosts an informative session about end-of-life care. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 860-4419.

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BiogRaphy aS hiStoRy SeRieS: 19th-centuRy RuSSian noveliStS: UVM professor Denise Youngblood discusses the influential works of Anton Chekhov. Faith United Methodist Church, South Burlington, 2 p.m. $5. Info, 864-3516. maRch madneSS Book Sale: Bibliophiles stock up on bargain-priced reading material. Rutland Free Library, 4-8 p.m. Free. Info, 773-1860. SpRing Book Sale: See WED.13, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

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“Everyone was very supportive and helpful. It was all very calm and nice.” Catherine and Lance Brown introduced their lovely daughter Molly Olivia to the world on Friday, the first day of March. More importantly, they introduced little Molly to her big brother Max (18 months). She was happily napping in her mama’s arms when we stopped by - which suited her brother just fine because he received all the attention AND a great new stuffed cat. Mom and Dad are going to have their hands full indeed - and we bet lots of fun and laughter as well. And when Molly gets home to Barre we bet her big brother will be sharing the attention. Molly weighed 7lb/13 oz and was 21 inches long. CVMC happily welcomes Molly to the CVMC family as well. Her mom works at CVMC’s Waterbury Medical Associates and her grandmother Kathy Pelletier is the director of CVMC’s Garden Path Birthing Center. Molly must share her grandmother with thirteen other grandkids but we’re sure she’ll still get plenty of loving. Congratulations and best wishes to all!

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‘giSelle’: The Royal Ballet portrays the human and supernatural worlds in a broadcast production of this renowned work about life, love and death. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. $6-18. Info, 748-2600. Swing dance pRactice SeSSion: Quickfooted participants get moving in different styles, such as the lindy hop, charleston and balboa. Indoor shoes required. Champlain Club, Burlington, 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Info, 448-2930.

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‘amouR’: See FRI.15, 7:30 p.m. ‘BRazil’: Robert De Niro stars in Terry Gilliam’s 1985 sci-fi fantasy about a futuristic world in which bureaucracy rules over individual pursuits. Film House, Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington, 7 p.m. Free; first come, first served. Info, 540-3018 . ‘chaRade’: A hint of romance finds its way into Stanley Donen’s thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as a wealthy widow and Cary Grant as the man pursuing her fortune. Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 1:30 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘koch’: See FRI.15, 5:30 p.m. ‘miSS RepReSentation’: Katie Couric and Margaret Cho appear in Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary about the underrepresentation of powerful women in American media. A discussion follows. Stearns Cinema, Johnson State College, 4 p.m. Free. Info, 635-1408. ‘on talking teRmS with dogS’: Canine lovers screen the film by renowned animal behaviorist Turid Rugaas, then share ideas about their pets’ body language. Stowe Free Library, 7-8:30 p.m. Free. Info, 253-6145. ‘the weight of the nation’: Community members screen the HBO documentary about the United States’ obesity epidemic, then discuss access to nutrition and physical fitness in Addison County. Middlebury Ambulance Center, Middlebury, 5:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 388-5742, megan.lausted@state.vt.us.

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laughteR yoga: What’s so funny? Giggles burst out as gentle aerobic exercise and yogic

breathing meet unconditional laughter to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual health and well-being. Miller Community and Recreation Center, Burlington, 5 p.m. Free. Info, 355-5129. Reiki clinic: Master teacher Jennifer Kerns and her students introduce this Japanese energy-healing technique with brief treatments. Vermont Center for Acupuncture & Wellness, Burlington, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Donations; preregister. Info, 339-222-4753, shantihealingservices@ gmail.com. yoga & wine: Lori Flower leads participants through guided stretching, after which local wine is available to sample. Personal mats required. Fresh Tracks Farm Vineyard & Winery, Berlin, 5-6:15 p.m. $8; preregister at breathingislife@gmail.com. Info, 223-1151.

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cReative tueSdayS: Artists engage their imaginations with recycled crafts. Kids under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 3-5 p.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. faiRfax StoRy houR: Good listeners up to age 6 are rewarded with tales, crafts and activities. Fairfax Community Library, 9:30-10:30 a.m. Free. Info, 849-2420. highgate StoRy houR: See WED.13, 10-11 a.m. loRen long: The author/illustrator signs and discusses Otis and the Puppy, the newest book in his series about the friendly tractor. Shelburne Town Hall, 4 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 985-3999. muSic with RoBeRt: Music lovers of all ages join sing-alongs with Robert Resnik. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. pReSchool StoRy houR: Three- to 5-yearolds keep their hands busy with crafts at tale time. Dorothy Alling Memorial Library, Williston, 11 a.m. Free. Info, 878-4918. RichfoRd playgRoup: Rug rats let their hair down for tales and activities. Cornerstone Bridges to Life Community Center, Richford, 1011:30 a.m. Free. Info, 527-5426. StoRy time with coRey: Read-aloud tales and crafts led by store employee Corey Bushey expand the imaginations of young minds. Buttered Noodles, Williston, 10 a.m. Free. Info, 764-1810. StoRy time foR 3- to 5-yeaR-oldS: See WED.13, 10-10:45 a.m. StoRy time foR BaBieS & toddleRS: Picture books, songs, rhymes and puppets arrest the attention of kids under 3. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 9:10-9:30 a.m. Free. Info, 878-6956.

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fRench conveRSation gRoup: Beginnerto-intermediate French speakers brush up on their linguistics — en français. Halvorson’s Upstreet Café, Burlington, 4:30-6 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195. pauSe-café fRench conveRSation: Francophiles of all levels speak the country’s language at a drop-in conversation. Mr. Crêpe, Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 540-0195.

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Jackie daly & matt cRanitch: The accordionist and fiddler perform a repertoire of traditional Irish Sliabh Luachra instrumental music. River Arts Center, Morrisville, 7 p.m. $15 suggested donation. Info, 888-1261.

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BeginneR computeR claSS: Tom Barber leads participants through the basics of internet browsing, email and more. Fairfax Community Library, 2:45-4:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 849-2420.

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Alzheimer’s informAtion session: The Alzheimer’s Association of Vermont offers an overview of assessing risk factors, detecting symptoms and treating the disease. Essex Free Library, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 879-0313. Dolly fleming: In “Mercy, Women and Justice,” the executive director of Mercy Connections outlines the organization’s outreach programs. Room 1867, Dewey Community Center, Johnson State College, noon. Free. Info, 635-1259. going solAr Without going Broke: SunCommon’s Jessica Edgerly Walsh discusses financing options, as well as state and federal incentives, for harnessing the sun’s energy. Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 223-8000, ext. 202, info@hungermountain.coop. ilAriA BrAncoli BusDrAghi: The Middlebury College visiting professor discusses Italian stoneworkers’ critical role in Vermont’s granite and marble industries from 1880 to 1915. Room 125, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, 4:30 p.m. Free. Info, 443-3168.

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West-coAst sWing-DAnce lessons: Dancers learn this freestyle form to blues, pop and funk tunes. No partner required. Middlebury Fitness, 2:45-3:45 p.m. & 7:05-8:05 p.m. $5-12. Info, 558-1870. West-coAst sWing-DAnce lessons: shelBurne: Dancers learn this freestyle form to blues, pop and funk tunes. No partner required. Shelburne Town Hall, noon-1 p.m. $10. Info, 558-1870.

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‘Amour’: See FRI.15, 1:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ‘BAg it’: Susan Beraza’s documentary follows Jeb Berrier, whose quest to stop using plastic bags quickly develops into something much larger. Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, Middlebury College, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 443-5013. community cinemA film series: See WED.20, Catamount Arts Center, St. Johnsbury, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 748-2600. ‘koch’: See FRI.15, 1:30 p.m. & 5:30 p.m.

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A crAfty evening With recycle moe: Moe O’Hara helps eco-friendly youngsters get creative and repurpose vintage books into upcycled, wirebound journals. Brownell Library, Essex Junction, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 878-6956, kat@brownelllibrary.org. BABytime PlAygrouP: See WED.13, 10:30 a.m. noon. enosBurg PlAygrouP: See WED.13, 10-11:30 a.m. fAirfielD PlAygrouP: See WED.13, 10-11:30 a.m. highgAte story hour: See WED.13, 11:15 a.m. mAy’s WorlD music & movement: See WED.13, 10:30-11:15 a.m. move, groove & sign: Kiddos ages 2 to 5 celebrate creative movement and National Deaf History Month with activities that include American Sign Language. Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, 11-11:30 a.m. Free. Info, 865-7216. st. AlBAns PlAygrouP: See WED.13, 9-10:30 a.m. story time & PlAygrouP: See WED.13, 1011:30 a.m. story time for 3- to 5-yeAr-olDs: See WED.13, 10-10:45 a.m. youth meDiA lAB: See WED.13, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

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song circle: community sing-Along With rich & lAurA Atkinson: This experienced pair of musical leaders provides instrumental accompaniment to participants’ voices. No experience necessary. Jaquith Public Library, Marshfield, 6:45 p.m. Free. Info, 426-3581.

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Burlington Writers WorkshoP meeting: See WED.13, 6:30-7:30 p.m. sArAh gillen: The therapist introduces her new book, From Hurt to Joy, which details techniques for healing via the body’s energy systems. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 223-3338 . sPring Book sAle: See WED.13, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. m

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Design for success seminAr: See WED.13, 8-9:30 a.m. kelley mArketing meeting: Marketing, advertising, communications, social media and design professionals brainstorm ideas for local nonprofits over breakfast. Room 217, Ireland Building, Champlain College, Burlington, 7:45-9 a.m. Free. Info, 865-6495.

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PoWering your Business With microsoft 365 clouD: Network Performance employees guide area professionals through hands-on information sessions about the software system. Network Performance, South Burlington, 9 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 859-0808, ext. 236. sPenD smArt series: See WED.13, 6-8 p.m. tech helP: See WED.13, 10:30-11:30 a.m. the re-emerging green: sPring WilDcrAfting, herBAl meDicines & the PlAnt/humAn relAtionshiP: VCIH graduate Graham Unangst-Rufenacht demonstrates culinary and medicinal preparations for seasonal, bioregional vegetation. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, Montpelier, 6-8 p.m. $1012; preregister. Info, 224-7100. using sociAl meDiA to Promote your ArtWork: BCA Center’s Eric Ford and Torrey Valyou, cofounder of New Duds silkscreen company, share tips and techniques for using Facebook, Twitter and more to create a fan base. Lorraine B. Good Room, BCA Center, Burlington, 6-8 p.m. $13-15; preregister. Info, 865-7166.

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BAckyArD hABitAt WorkshoP: Environmental educator Lauren Chicote teaches green thumbs about growing native vegetation to attract bees, butterflies and more. Ethan Allen Homestead, Burlington, 6-7:30 p.m. Free; preregister; limited space. Info, 863-5744.

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cADy/Potter Writers circle: Literary enthusiasts improve their craft through “homework” assignments, journaling exercises, reading, sharing and occasional book discussions. Ilsley Public Library, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Info, 349-6970. kim mAcQueen: The local author signs and discuss her new book, Out, Out: A Novel of Women and Apes, which closely examines both species. Phoenix Books Burlington, 6:30 p.m. Free. Info, 448-3350. lesley nAse: The master storyteller shares tales about the natural world, including the solstice and equinox. Withey Hall, Green Mountain College, Poultney, 7:30 p.m. Free. Info, 287-8926. lloyD Devereux richArDs: The Montpelier lawyer and author reads and discusses his crime thriller Stone Maidens. Kellogg-Hubbard Library, Montpelier, 7 p.m. Free. Info, 802 223-3338. sPring Book sAle: See WED.13, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

must be accompanied by an adult; transportation available for seniors. Info, 655-4565. homeshAre vermont informAtionAl session: Those interested in homesharing and/ or caregiving programs meet with staff to learn more. HomeShare Vermont, South Burlington, 2 p.m. Free; preregister. Info, 863-5625. oPen rotA meeting: See WED.13, 6 p.m.

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building TINY-HOUSE WORKSHOP: Mar. 23, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $125/ person. Location: East Johnson, Vermont. Peter King, 933-6103. Tools, techniques, materials and design for framing and sheathing a small wooden house will be covered during this full day of lecture and practice. We will use a 1/5-scale model as well as the actual building of a full-scale floor and single wall to learn from. Plenty of hands-on experience for absolute beginners. Tools provided; safety glasses required.

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business GETTING SERIOUS: INTRO TO BIZ: Apr. 4-25, 6-8 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $125/2-hr. class/4 wks. Location: Mercy Connections Offices, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington. Women’s Small Business Program Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 846-7338, gpokalo@mercyconnections. org, wsbp.org. Have an idea for a business? Wondering if business ownership is for you? Go step by step through every facet of what’s involved in business ownership. Led by knowledgeable, caring instructors in a highly interactive, supportive classroom environment. Identify your business skills, reality-filter your idea, make an action plan to succeed! WHAT’S NEXT FOR SM. BIZ OWNERS: Apr. 10-May 8, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $550/3-hr. class/5 wks. Location: Mercy Connections Offices, 255 South Champlain Street, Burlington. Women’s Small Business Program Mercy Connections, Gwen Pokalo, 8467338, gpokalo@mercyconnections.org, wsbp.org. Stuck in the same places in your business? Not sure how to implement your business plan? Don’t go it alone; join other small-business owners in this 5-week course to identify obstacles you’re currently experiencing in your business, source solutions with business owners like you, take tangible steps to implement innovation and see results in your business revenue!

camps VTRIBE LAX SUMMER LEAGUE TRYOUTS: Sun., Mar. 17, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., UVM Virtue Field, & Sun., Mar. 24, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., St. Mike’s Turf. Cost: $50/person. Tryout cost is applied to team fee. 343-2102, vtribelax.com. Try out for the Green U-16 and Gold U-18 Summer Teams. Registration form and schedule avail. online.

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drumming TAIKO, DJEMBE, CONGAS & BATA!: Location: Burlington Taiko Space, 208 Flynn Ave., suite 3-G, Burlington. Stuart Paton, 999-4255, spaton55@ gmail.com. Tuesday Taiko adult classes begin April 30, 5:30-6:20 p.m. $72/6 weeks. Kids classes begin the same date, 4:30-5:20 p.m. $60/6 weeks. Conga and Djembe classes also avail. Call for locations.

empowerment INTRODUCTION TO JUNGIAN PERSONALITY TYPE: Mar. 23, 10 a.m.-noon. Cost: $45. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 244-7909. Learn the basics of the MyersBriggs Type Instrument in this workshop that expands the framework of personality type to provide a powerful tool for coaching, counseling and personal development. Led by Mark Hunziger, teacher and author. LIFE PURPOSE: IDENTIFYING YOURS AND TAKING ACTION: Mar. 16, 9-11 a.m. Cost: $35/ person. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 244-7909. Develop a clear Life Purpose statement, learn how to act on it and identify concrete steps to manifest it so as to make your life more fulfilled and meaningful. Led by Cornelia Ward, consultant and teacher.

energy INTRO TO ESOTERIC HEALING: Mar. 23 & 24 & Apr. 20 & 21, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Cost: $390/24 hrs. of class time. Location: Rose home, Enosburgh. Partners in Wholeness, Claudia Rose, 9336107, claudiarosevt@gmail.com, claudiarose.abmp.com. Learn to facilitate physical vitality and health in yourself and others through the practice of Esoteric Healing, an energy medicine modality. Experience the energy of your aura, learn physical and energetic anatomy, alignment with higher energies and meditation in an interactive format.

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DANCE STUDIO SALSALINA: Location: 266 Pine St., Burlington. Victoria, 598-1077, info@salsalina.com. Salsa classes, nightclub-style, on-one and on-two, group and private, four levels. Beginner walk-in classes, Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $13/ person for one-hour class. No dance experience, partner or preregistration required, just the desire to have fun! Drop in any time and prepare for an enjoyable workout! DSANTOS VT SALSA: Mon. evenings: beginner class 7-8 p.m., intermediate 8:15-9:15 p.m. Cost: $10/1-hr. class. Location: Movement Studio, 180 Flynn Ave., Burlington. Tyler Crandall, 598-9204, crandalltyler@ hotmail.com, dsantosvt.com. Experience the fun and excitement of Burlington’s eclectic dance community by learning salsa. Trained by world famous dancer Manuel Dos Santos, we teach you how to dance to the music and how to have a great time on the dance floor! There is no better time to start than now!

LEARN TO DANCE W/ A PARTNER!: Cost: $50/4-wk. class. Location: Champlain Club, 20 Crowley St., Burlington. Lessons also avail. in St. Albans. First Step Dance, 598-6757, kevin@firststepdance.com, FirstStepDance.com. Come alone, or come with friends, but come out and learn to dance! Beginning classes repeat each month, but intermediate classes vary from month to month. As with all of our programs, everyone is encouraged to attend, and no partner is necessary.

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USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO PROMOTE YOUR ARTWORK: Mar. 20, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $13/BCA members; $15/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 2nd floor, Burlington. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Etsy, Blogs and more! Social media is an easy, and often free, way to promote yourself as an artist. Join BCA’s marketing director, Eric Ford, and local business owner Torrey Valyou of New Duds Silkscreen Company for an introduction to the social media world. CLAY: AFTERNOON WHEEL THROWING: Apr. 11-May 30, 12:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $216/BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. This new eight-week class is an introduction to clay, pottery and the ceramics studio. Learn basic throwing and forming techniques while creating functional pieces such as mugs, vases and bowls. Learn various finishing techniques using the studio’s house slips and glazes. No previous experience needed! Class includes over 30 hours per week of open studio time to practice. CLAY: INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED WHEEL: Apr. 11-May 30, 9:30 a.m.-noon., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $252/BCA members; $280/nonmembers. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. Local pottery artist

Jeremy Ayers will help you refine your wheelwork in this morning class for intermediate and advanced potters. The class can be tailored to students continuing from Intermediate Wheel, or for new students. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, trimming, decorative and glazing methods. Students should be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio space time included. CLAY: WHEEL THROWING II: Apr. 11-May 30, 6-8:30 p.m. Cost: $216/BCA members; $240/nonmembers. Clay sold separately at $20 per 25-lb. bag, glazes & firings incl. Location: BCA Clay Studio, 250 Main St., Burlington. In this class, designed for those with some wheel experience, students will learn individualized tips for advancement on the wheel. Demonstrations and instruction will cover intermediate throwing, beginning to intermediate trimming, and glazing techniques. Individual projects will be encouraged. Students must be proficient in centering and throwing. Over 30 hours per week of open studio time included. PHOTO: ADOBE LIGHTROOM 4: Mar. 27-May 1, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $225/BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Upload, organize, edit and print your digital photographs in this comprehensive class using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. Importing images, using RAW riles, organization, fine-tuning tone and contrast, color and white balance adjustments, and archival printing on our Epson 3880 printer will all be covered. Bring a Mac-compatible portable flash or hard drive with your images to the first class. Prerequisite: Intro Film/Digital SLR Camera or equivalent experience. Instructor: Dan Lovell. PHOTO: DIGITAL WORKFLOW: Mar. 28-Apr. 2, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $184.50/ BCA members; $205/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Learn how to manage your digital files, edit your photographs and print. Uploading images into Adobe Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop editing tools such as color and white balance correction, layers, masks, sections, retouching will be covered, as well as color-managed printing on our large format Epson printer. No experience required. VIDEO: DIGITAL FILMMAKING: Mar. 25-Apr. 29, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Mon. Cost: $225/ BCA members; $250/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Digital Media Lab, Burlington. Filmmaking is a crossdiscipline art form involving aspects of photography, writing,

composition, audio design, motion graphics and video and sound editing, and this course will touch on all disciplines. Access to a digital video camera is a plus but not required. This course is taught in partnership with Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM) in the South End of Burlington (vermontcam.org). Instructor: Bill Simmon. PAINTING: ABSTRACT: Weekly on Tue., Apr. 9-May 21, 6:30-9 p.m. No class Apr. 23. Cost: $162/ BCA members; $180/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Students will be guided to explore the many exciting possibilities of abstract painting. Using the paint of their choice, students will be encouraged to experiment and try adding other mixed media as well. Bring in some ideas or reference materials to use as a starting place. BCA provides glass palettes, easels, painting trays and drying racks. Instructor: Lisa Jones. PAINTING: REALISM: Mar. 28May 16, 6-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $176/BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Do you want your paintings to be so real they pop off the canvas? Classically trained realist painter Sheel Gardner Anand will present to artists of all levels a simple and logical approach to oil painting from life and photos. Learn the foundation to create a believable three-dimensional illusion on a two-dimensional surface. Beginners welcome. PAINTING: WATERCOLOR: Apr. 10-May 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $176/BCA members; $195/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center, 135 Church St., Burlington. Learn how to paint with watercolor. This class will focus on observational painting from still life, figure, landscape and photos. Students paint on watercolor paper and gain experience with composition, color theory, layering, light and shade. Class may move outdoors to paint en plein air on nice days! Instructor: Marc Nadel. PHOTO: INTRO B&W DARKROOM: Mar. 25-May 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $193.50/ BCA members; $215/nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Community Darkroom, Burlington. Explore the analog darkroom! Learn how to properly expose black-and-white film, process film into negatives, and make prints from those negatives. Cost includes a darkroom membership for outside-of-class printing and processing and all materials. Bring a manual 35mm film camera to the first class. No experience necessary. Instructor: Rebecca Babbitt. PHOTO: MIXED LEVEL DARKROOM: Mar. 28-May 16, 6-9 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $247.50/BCA members; $275/ nonmembers. Location: BCA Center Community Darkroom, Burlington. Take your work to the next level in this eight-week class! Guided sessions to help you improve your printing and film processing techniques and discussion of the technical, aesthetic and conceptual aspects of your work will be included. Cost includes a darkroom membership for the duration of the class for outside-of-class printing and processing. Prerequisite: Intro to Black and White Film and the Darkroom or equivalent

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BURLINGTON TAIKO DRUM WORKSHOP: Adults & Teens: Mon., Mar. 25, 5:30-7 p.m. Cost: $15/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. 652-4500, flynnarts.org. Taiko, Japanese for “big drum,” is a modern revival of ancient Japanese performance traditions. On March 24, Burlington Taiko performs on the MainStage, demonstrating the style’s movement, rhythm, voice and graceful movement of “chi” (energy) from the player to the drum. Join us onstage the day after to learn the basics of this spirited and powerful art form. No experience necessary. ADVANCED STAND-UP COMEDY: Adults: Mon., Mar. 25-Apr. 15, 6-8 p.m. Cost: $95/4 wks. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. 652-4500, flynnarts.org. It takes years to master the art of standup, but you can accelerate the process in this advanced session for students who have taken Laugh Attack two or more times, or who have been performing for at least a year. Class ends with the ultimate challenge: an optional live performance in front of a full house in FlynnSpace on April 30. SHAKESPEARE WORKOUT WITH VERMONT SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: Adults & teens 14+: Sun., Mar. 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Limit: 14. Cost: $95/person. Location: Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, 153 Main St., Burlington. 652-4500, flynnarts. org. A fun and rigorous full-day workout where you’ll learn how to approach the language, poetry and physicality of Shakespeare and transform the text into action by deciphering clues and cues Shakespeare left in the text. Returning students very welcome, but experience not necessary! Lunch break midday.

gardening GARDEN PLANTS WITH MEDICINAL INTERESTS: Mar. 23, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/ person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. 660-3505. Many plants do more then just beautify a landscape. Learn about the medicinal properties of plants such as angelica, baptisia, black cohosh, calamus,

calendula, California poppy, echinacea, elderberry and many more with Heather, of Giving Tree Botanicals. INTRO TO SQUARE FOOT GARDENING: Mar. 23, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. 660-3505. Over the last 20 years, Peter has learned a lot about square-foot gardening. In this seminar he will cover the basics: planning, raised beds, permanent paths, perfect soil, grid planting, watering, trellising, succession plantings and maintenance, and how not to have a jungle of weeds in August! Convert your lawn to a garden or convert your garden to permanent beds that save space. WATER GARDENING: Mar. 16, 9:30-11 a.m. Cost: $10/person. Location: Gardener’s Supply, Burlington. 660-3505. Whether you already have a pond and want to spruce it up or want to create a new water feature of your own, Dave covers the basics and how-tos of getting started.

health NUTRITION TELECLASSES: Mar. 7-28, noon-1 p.m., Weekly on Thu. Cost: $15/class or $50 for all four. Location: Via conference call, from your home or office, your own home town. Transformation One, Morella Devost, 735-1348, mdevost@transformationone. com, transformationone.com. Four one-hour teleclasses on nutrition: sugar and carb addiction, fats that heal fats that kill, detoxification and eat-thisnot-that. Recipes, easy tips and tools for health are included. Facilitated via conference call so you can be anywhere. SPRING CLEANSE AND DETOX CLASS: Apr. 1-May 6, 6-7:30 p.m. Cost: $160/5 classes + materials. Location: Eastern View Integrative Medicine, 185 Tilley Drive, South Burlington. Inner Health Resources, Bryn Perkins, 735-1766, Bryn@ InnerHealthResources.com, InnerHealthResources.com. Move into summer with new, more empowered eating habits. We focus on nutrient-rich foods, smoothies and juices. Tailored to your needs, this class is inspiring, supportive and rewarding. You’ll want to take before-and-after photos! Free guide for first time cleansers at innerhealthresources.com. Taught by Bryn Perkins, PA, CBS. WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER: Apr. 6-Apr. 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Cost: $865/$250 deposit; tuition includes texts & instruction materials. Preregistration required. Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 224-7100, info@vtherbcenter.

org, vtherbcenter.org. Taught by Peter Muckerman, WEMT. This 76-hour course offers nationally recognized Wilderness First Responder and adult CPR certificates. It trains “everyday people” to be medics when the need arises to engage emergencies with competence, courage and confidence, whether at home, at work or in the wilderness.

helen day art center BASKETWEAVING: Apr. 6, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Cost: $125/ person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, 90 Pond St., Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. Learn how to weave a simple basket using all-natural weavers and spokes. Basket weaving is a long-standing tradition shared by cultures throughout the world. The variety of construction allows for endless possibilities in creating beautiful and useful objects. Weaving provides both a means of creating a unique expression and also a way to connect with tradition and craft in a meaningful way. Materials included. Instructed by Linda Lomasney. MOODS IN THE LANDSCAPE: Apr. 3-24, 1:30-3 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $40. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. 253-8358, education@helenday. com, helenday.com. This lecture series and field walk shall take a critical look at the landscape and the moods that can be attributed to flora, site and season. The natural and designed landscape shall be discussed and viewed through images produced over a 50-year period. Emphasis on the natural landscape and selective subtraction will be the thesis. INTUITIVE PAINTING: Mar. 31, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Cost: $50/person. Location: Helen Day Art Center, Stowe. 253-8358, education@ helenday.com, helenday.com. A creative painting adventure focused on the spirit of play and discovery. This will be a time to connect with your creative self and intuitively express yourself through gesture and colors. Working with gouache and acrylic paint, students will be lead through a spontaneous process of discovery and experimentation. No prior painting experience is required.

herbs COMMUNITY HERBALISM WORKSHOPS: The Re-Emerging Green: Spring Wild-Crafting, Herbal Medicines & the Plant/ Human Relationship w/ Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, Wed., Mar. 20, 6-8 p.m.; Flower Essences for Joy w/ Fearn Lickfield, Tue., Apr. 2, 6-8 p.m. ($5 materials fee); Spring Time Tincture Making: Dandelion, Burdock, Plantain & Nettle with Rebecca Dalgin, Mon., Apr. 15, 6-8 p.m. ($5 materials fee); Five Important Wild VT Medicinals: A Chinese Medicine Perspective w/ Brendan Kelly, Wed., Apr. 24, 6-9 p.m. ($15 members/$17 nonmembers). Location: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 252 Main St., Montpelier. Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, 2247100, info@vtherbcenter.org, vtherbcenter.org. Workshops cost $10 for members and $12 for nonmembers. Some classes may have a materials fee, noted in the descriptions. Registration is required for all classes. Please

call or email to reserve your space. Detailed descriptions at vtherbcenter.org. INTERMEDIATE HERBAL PROGRAM: May 5-Sep. 29, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., 2 Sun. monthly. Cost: $1200/person; incl. all books & supplies. Location: Horsetail Herbs/Kelley Robie, 134 Manley Rd., Milton. Horsetail Herbs, Kelley Robie, 893-0521, htherbs@comcast.net, horsetailherbs.org. Ten days through summer, formulating, harvesting, & preparing plants for medicinal use. Will focus on supporting body systems with our formulations. Projects will include advanced tinctures, tonics, salves, soaps, glycerites, creams, butters, capsules, oils, flower essences, syrups, aromatherapy, liniments, incense, chocolate and more. VSAC grant opportunities. WISDOM OF THE HERBS SCHOOL: Open house, Sat., Mar. 23, 1-3 p.m., at the Tulsi Tea Room, 34 Elm St., Montpelier. Emerging Plants, Returning Brids: Early Spring Nature Walk, Tue., Apr. 2, 6-7:30 p.m. Sliding scale $0-10, please preregister. Now accepting applications for Wisdom Eight-Month Certification Program, Apr. 20-21, May 18-19, Jun. 15-16, Jul. 13-14, Aug. 10-11, Sep. 7-8, Oct. 5-6 & Nov. 2-3. Tuition: $1750; nonrefundable deposit: $250; payment plan: $187.50/ mo. Applications for Wild Edibles spring term: Apr. 28, May 26, Jun. 23. Tuition: $300. VSAC nondegree grants avail. Location: Wisdom of the Herbs School, Woodbury. 456-8122, annie@wisdomoftheherbsschool. com, wisdomoftheherbsschool. com. Earth skills for changing times. Experiential programs embracing local wild edible and medicinal plants, food as first medicine, sustainable living skills and the inner journey. Annie McCleary, director, and George Lisi, naturalist.

language ABSOLUEMENT! FRENCH/ ART CLASSES/CAMPS CHEZ WINGSPAN: Preschool FRART! starts Fri., Mar. 15. Spring session Adult Group French, Adv. Beg. & Int., starts Apr. 11. Youth Spring Break African Art/Language Vaca Camp: Apr. 22-26. Location: wingspan Studio, 4A Howard St, 3rd Fl, Burlington. wingspan Studio, Maggie Standley, 2337676, maggiestandley@yahoo. com, wingspanpaintingstudio. com. French, art and more for preschoolers, youth and adults in a beautiful atelier! Through multiple learning modalities, you will cultivate confidence in a supportive, fun, beautiful space. Madame Maggie is a fluent French speaker, is an encouraging and patient instructor and has lived/worked in Paris, France, and Yaounde, Cameroon. Allons-y! ANNOUNCING SPANISH CLASSES: Beginning wk. of Apr. 9-11 for 10 wks. Location: Spanish in Waterbury Center, Waterbury Ctr. Spanish in Waterbury Center, 585-1025, spanishparavos@gmail.com, spanishwaterburycenter.com. Join us for adult Spanish classes this spring. Our sixth year. Learn from a native speaker via small classes, individual instruction or student tutoring. You’ll always be participating and speaking. Lesson packages for travelers. Also lessons for young children;

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martial arts AIKIDO: Adult introductory classes begin on Tue., Mar. 5 at 5:30 p.m. Location: Aikido of Champlain Valley, 257 Pine St. (across from Conant Metal & Light), Burlington. 951-8900, burlingtonaikido.org. This Japanese martial art is a great method to get in shape and relieve stress. Classes for adults, teens and children. We also offer morning classes for new students. Study with Benjamin Pincus Sensei, 6th degree black belt and Vermont’s only fully certified Aikido teacher. Visitors are always welcome. AIKIDO CLASSES: 4-wk. Intro Class for Women starts Mar. 14. To register, email aikidointroclass@gmail.com. Location: Vermont Aikido, 274 N. Winooski Ave. (2nd floor), Burlington. Vermont Aikido, 862-9785, vermontaikido.org. Aikido trains body and spirit, promoting flexibility and strong center within flowing movement, martial sensibility with compassionate presence, respect for others, and confidence in oneself. KARATE CLASS FOR WOMEN: Mar. 16-Apr. 6, 12-1:10 p.m., Weekly on Sat. Cost: $15/ payable in cash or by check. Location: Artemis Fitness, 7 Fayette Dr #2, South Burlington. One Heart Karate, Veronika Travis, 399-7492, veronika@ oneheartkaratevt.com, http:// oneheartkaratevt.com/. Relieve stress, feel stronger and have a great time learning Isshin Ryu Karate. Instructor Veronika Travis brings 25 years of martial arts and mindfulness study to the practice. The class is noncompetitive, and all participants are encouraged to discover the strength and calm they can bring to everyday challenges. VERMONT BRAZILIAN JIUJITSU: Mon.-Fri., 6-9 p.m., & Sat., 10 a.m. 1st class is free. Location: Vermont Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 55 Leroy Rd., Williston. 660-4072, Julio@bjjusa.com, vermontbjj.com. Classes for men, women and children. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu enhances strength, flexibility, balance, coordination and cardio-respiratory fitness. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training builds and helps to instill courage and self-confidence. We offer a legitimate Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu martial arts program in a friendly, safe and positive environment. Accept no imitations. Learn from one of the world’s best, Julio “Foca” Fernandez, CBJJ and IBJJF certified 6th Degree Black Belt, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor under Carlson Gracie Sr., teaching in Vermont, born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! A 5-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu National Featherweight Champion and 3-time Rio de Janeiro State Champion, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

massage ASIAN BODYWORK THERAPY PROGRAM: Weekly on Mon., Tue. Cost: $5000/500-hr. program. Location: Elements of Healing, 21 Essex Way, suite 109, Essex Jct. Elements of Healing, Scott Moylan, 288-8160, elementsofhealing@verizon. net, elementsofhealing.net. This program teaches two forms of massage, Amma and Shiatsu. We will explore Oriental medicine theory and diagnosis as well

as the body’s meridian system, acupressure points, Yin Yang and 5-Element Theory. Additionally, 100 hours of Western anatomy and physiology will be taught. VSAC nondegree grants are available. NCBTMB-assigned school. EXPLORATION OF MOVEMENT: Mar. 16-17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Cost: $245 ($225 if paid by Mar. 4; call about risk-free introductory fee). Location: Touchstone Healing Arts , Burlington. Dianne Swafford, 734-1121, swaffordperson@hotmail.com, ortho-bionomy.org/SOBI/DianneSwafford. Using ortho-bionomy, participants will learn to recognize and palpate patterns of joint and muscle movement in order to facilitate tension release and increase range of motion. These techniques help relieve tension in those stuck places in our body that keep our bodies from moving well (i.e., shoulder blades or pelvis that won’t move when someone is walking).

meditation INTRODUCTION TO ZEN: Sat., Mar. 23, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $30-half-day workshop, limited-time price. Location: Vermont Zen Center, 480 Thomas Rd., Shelburne. Vermont Zen Center, 985-9746, ecross@ crosscontext.net, vermontzen. org. This workshop is conducted by an ordained Zen Buddhist teacher and focuses on the theory and meditation practices of Zen Buddhism. Preregistration required. Call for more info or register online. LEARN TO MEDITATE: Meditation instruction avail. Sun. mornings, 9 a.m.-noon, or by appt. Meditation sessions on Tue. & Thu., noon-1 p.m. and Mon.-Thu., 6-7 p.m. The Shambhala Cafe meets the 1st Sat. of ea. mo. for meditation & discussions, 9 a.m.-noon. An open house occurs 3rd Fri. evening of ea. mo., 7-9 p.m., which incl. an intro to the center, a short dharma talk & socializing. Location: Burlington Shambhala Center, 187 S. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 658-6795, burlingtonshambhalactr.org. Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy toward yourself. The Burlington Shambhala Center offers meditation as a path to discovering gentleness and wisdom.

music THE BILL REED MUSICAL THEATRE SUMMER INTENSIVE: Jun. 23-29. Location: Spotlight on Dance, 50 San Remo Drive, South Burlington. 862-7326, admin@theatricalsinger.com, billreedvoicestudio.com/thestudio/workshops/summerintensive.html. Join Bill Reed for a weeklong program focusing on acting technique, working on different voice qualities, anatomy of the vocal mechanism and vocal technique, style and musicality, physical expression, dancing for the stage, as well as college and professional audition prep. The week culminates in a student performance.

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relationships meeting Your inner partner: Mar. 20-Apr. 10, 7-9 p.m., Weekly on Wed. Cost: $60/ person. Location: The Jungian Center, 55 Clover Ln., Waterbury. 244-7909. Discover the inner men and women living in your “inner city,” who deeply influence your relationships and love life, in this workshop full of hands-on experiential material. led by sue Mehrtens, teacher and author.

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training Dog CLaSSeS: Fun, eFFeCtiVe!: Basic: Mar. 15-Apr. 19, 5:30-6:30 p.m. $110/$132. Beyond Basic: Mar. 15-Apr. 12, 6:45-7:45 p.m. $95/$114. Preregistration req. Location: South Burlington Recreation/Gold Star Dog Training, S. Burlington City Hall, S. Burlington. Gold Star Dog Training, Deborah Helfrich, 8492363, deb@goldstardog.com, goldstardog.com. Basic Training/ social skills: six-week class covers obedience, bonding techniques and social skills. Focuses on understanding your dog and applying simple dog-training concepts. exercises are fun and positive. Beyond Basics: 5-week class teaches more advanced levels of obedience and response. exercises are taught such that dogs at various levels benefit.

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yoga eVoLution Yoga: $14/class, $130/class card, $5-10/community classes. Location: Evolution Yoga, 20 Kilburn St., Burlington. 864-9642, evolutionvt.com. evolution Yoga offers a variety of classes in a supportive atmosphere: beginner, advanced, kids, babies, post- and prenatal, community classes, and workshops. Vinyasa, Kripalu, core, Breast cancer survivor and alignment classes. certified teachers, massage and PT, too. Join our yoga community and get to know the family you choose. hot Yoga burLington: Get hot — 2-for-1 offer. 1-hr. classes on Mon., Tue. & Thu.: 5:30 p.m; Fri.: 5 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m. Cost: $14-1st 2 classes, multi-class cards avail. Location: North End Studio B, 294 N Winooski Ave, Old North End, Burlington. 999-9963, hotyogaburlingtonvt. com. Hot Yoga Burlington offers creative, vinyasa-style yoga featuring practice in the Barkan Method Hot Yoga in a 95-degree studio accompanied by eclectic music. Try something different! pLant Spirit Yoga Year: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. ea. time (except overnights): Mar. 31, May 11, Jun. 22 (overnight), Aug. 3, Sep. 21, Nov. 2, and Dec. 21 (overnight). Cost: $600-entire series; sorry, no drop-ins. Location: Dharma Door Retreat Center, Underhill, Underhill. Saprema Yoga, Lydia Russell, 229-6300, lydia.dragonfly@gmail.com, saprema-yoga. com. Join herbalist, storyteller and yoga teacher lydia RussellMcDade on a journey to deepen your yoga and your connection to Nature. Over the course of a year, we’ll meet seven times at a beautiful country retreat to delve deeply into the teachings of the plants through movement, meditation, myth and magic! m

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t seems to me that we have a marketing problem,” says Zach Phillips. “We’re very hard to identify with.” Phillips, speaking by phone from his home in Brattleboro, Vt., is a founding member and keyboardist of the experimental pop band Blanche Blanche Blanche. I’ve just asked him, rather reluctantly, how he would describe his band’s music. Usually, that question is music-scribe sacrilege — a music writer who can’t describe music is in the wrong line of work. But in the case of Blanche Blanche Blanche, I’m not alone in my puzzlement. As reviewers from online publications such as Stereogum, BrooklynVegan, Pitchfork and others have discovered, the band can often leave even capable writers at a loss for words. Or at least in a frantic search to find the right ones. That search will begin anew this week when the band releases its latest LP, Wooden Ball, on Burlington-based cassette label NNA Tapes. On its heels comes a string of release shows, including one on Friday, March 15, at the BCA Center in Burlington with locals Ryan Power, Son of Salami and Toy Boat. Much like BBB’s six previous albums, the record features a hoary collection of deconstructed pop, manic songs that twist, turn and twist again amid a disorienting maelstrom of alien synth and fractured vocals. This is music that aggressively gnaws at the boundaries of modern musical convention. Even the band’s moniker, Blanche Blanche Blanche, suggests a sort of panicked insistence. In short, it is bewildering stuff. So how does Phillips describe BBB’s music? “Non-idiomatic songwriting, which means actively avoiding an idiom,” he offers. “And the accidental idiom I think we’ve been hitting on is what I like to call ‘open-session rock’ … You do the work now, and you figure out what it means to you later on.” Phillips explains that a central tenet of BBB’s artistic philosophy is not to ascribe any deeper meaning to their work during its creation. Instead, he and cofounder Sarah Smith prefer to let

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their music exist as a free-flowing and freewheeling extension of themselves, which is to say, unpredictable. “We’re both pretty manic people,” says Smith, speaking by phone from her home in New York City. “And I think that comes out in our music.” “The way that we work, we really don’t try to conceptualize the significance of what we’re trying to do up front,” says Phillips. “It’s more about placing our trust in the act of working.” The idea that there is no conscious idea has left audiences and critics alike scratching their heads in an attempt to interpret some greater message or meaning in BBB’s music. It has also inspired some interesting, and sometimes dubious, speculation, from off-the-mark comparisons to other artists — Ariel Pink, for one — to White Stripes-like musings on the nature of the duo’s relationship. (For the record, Phillips and Smith are childhood friends who grew up as outcasts in Hanover, N.H. “We were big freaks,” says Smith. And yes, they did date for several years but are no longer a couple.) For her part, Smith says that at least some of the material on Wooden Ball is a reaction to the national attention the band received last year for its 2012 re-

cord, Wink With Both Eyes. On “Family of One,” for example, serrated blades of synth carve up a plodding bass line, fending off a blunder of drums that seem to crash in a heap just at the brink of gaining rhythmic momentum. Picture the frustrated movement of a malfunctioning Roomba vacuum and you’ll get the idea. Over this collapsing cacophony, Smith sings in apathetic deadpan, “Music’s even worse when it’s not great.” There is a wry sense of humor in BBB’s writing, coupled with a keen selfawareness of the band’s own strangeness. While Smith describes their collaborative lyric-writing style as something resembling stream of consciousness, both say their approach to musical composition is anything but off the cuff. Phillips says that BBB’s songs typically begin life as far more conventional tunes might: hammered out on piano. “If it’s a song that seems to have conspicuous chordal content, it was written on a piano,” he says. From there, he describes a process of meticulous deconstruction. “We might think something is beautiful, and then kind of want to fuck with that,” he continues. One of the signature ways in which BBB do just that is to use bass guitar in

an almost adversarial relationship to Miller’s vocals, resulting in a queer sort of counterpoint. “That’s a fundamental idea that structures the songs, the action of the bass against vocal melodies, explains Phillips. “The melody is doing something pretty, so we’ll disorganize it with the bass.” As outlandish as their material often sounds, BBB use virtually no extraneous effects. There are no computer sequencers, effects, tape loops or any other hallmarks typical of modern experimental pop. “It’s one synthesizer and occasionally a piano,” says Phillips, who plays a Yamaha XY77, of BBB’s core sonic aesthetic. “A lot of the music that we both find compelling seems to have at its core a love of knowledge and activity,” says Phillips. “But there is also a sense of refusing to alight for very long on something and assign it any significance.” That sense of intellectual and emotional ADD is readily apparent on Wooden Ball. Rarely does the band linger on any theme, musically or lyrically, for more than a few seconds. And you would be hard-pressed to divine anything resembling a traditional hook or chorus in most of the 16 songs that make up the under-30-minute record. Just as quickly as Blanche Blanche Blanche touch on an idea, they move on to the next one. That’s true on a macro level as well. The band has already finished recording a follow-up to Wooden Ball, due out on Brooklyn’s Wharf Cat Records later this year. Featuring the band’s current six-member lineup, the album will be the band’s seventh in roughly 18 months. “We’re both pretty crazy,” says Smith of their prolificacy. “We have a tendency to make something and then immediately move on, endlessly trying to avoid cycles so we can move on to the next idea.” And then the next one. And the next… Blanche Blanche Blanche, Ryan Power, Son of Salami and Toy Boat perform at the BCA Center in Burlington this Friday, March 15, 9 p.m. $8. Wooden Ball is available at nnatapes.com.

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Tassey went to the local Kinko’s and had hundreds of flyers and posters made bearing the FXFU moniker. She plastered downtown Austin and stood outside SXSW showcases handing out handbills. “People totally got what we were doing,” she says in a recent phone conversation. “They were psyched to get away from SXSW politics.” The party was a smash success. Tassey says hundreds of people rolled through the door, including members of Austin bands ed hall, the BuTThole surfers and the Prairie dogs. The band raised enough money to fix the van, and was subsequently invited to play some “crazy loft and backroom shows.” As for FXFU? Hard to say. Aside from a few random YouTube videos and message-board posts bearing the handle, the festival has almost no internet presence — unsurprisingly, given its counter-cultural nature. Though it’s clear some version of it existed at least as recently as 2008. Responding to an email inquiry, raoul hernandez, the current music editor at the Austin Chronicle, says that while the festival has some name cachet in Austin, he hasn’t heard anything about it recently. But I’d like to think that somewhere, most likely in East Austin, some starry-eyed, down-on-their-luck band who came to SXSW this week only to have their dreams dashed will play an impromptu set for similarly jaded

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from work. And there was that pesky matter of all the money that had been raised to send the band on its way. This was pre-Kickstarter, after all, and there was no way to repay those who donated. “We couldn’t just keep the money we’d raised and stay home,” writes Tassey. So she booked two small club shows as consolation. But in Waco, Texas — two weeks after the Branch Davidian shootings — Pudvah’s van, Blue Ethel, lost a tire. The axle scraped the pavement and the ensuing sparks set the van on fire. “Troy, being the amazing muscleman drummer in the band, jumped out of the van before I could even scream,” writes Tassey. Pudvah dumped the band’s beer cooler, filled it with water from a roadside ditch and extinguished the flames. Incredibly, no one was injured, and Tassey and company made it to Austin. But they were stranded until they could afford to fix the van. In Austin, the band crashed with a Vermont expat, musician and artist eThan azarian. Near Azarian’s place was the Helms House, a large co-op — and notorious party house — occupied by college students. Among its previous residents: a singer named Janis JoPlin. Tassey approached the house’s inhabitants and related her story. She asked the residents if they would host a fundraising show to get the band back on the road. They happily agreed. “And Fuck X Fuck You was born!” writes Tassey.

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South by Southwest is a monster. Part industry mixer, part festival, part precursor to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, it is one of the most important music events of the year, and inarguably the largest. But it wasn’t always. Once upon a time, SXSW was simply a showcase for Austin bands, a way for the city’s musicians to snag a slice of the publicity pie from their higher-profile New York or Los Angeles brethren. As the festival has exploded in popularity and cultural importance, it has spawned an inevitable backlash that’s manifested in a variety of forms. In certain snarky corners of the blogosphere, it is fashionable to bemoan SXSW as overblown and overhyped corporate posturing — a not entirely baseless claim. Ask Austin residents — the ones who don’t pack up and leave town during the music week — how they feel about the fest, and you’ll hear a spectrum of answers ranging from the politically correct (“It’s a boon for the city!”) to the bluntly honest (“Get the hell out of my bar. And don’t move here.”). Perhaps the most infamous — and pointed — response to SXSW was the rise of an underground antifestival called Fuck X Fuck You. Clever moniker, no? At first glance, you’d think such an event was started by some jilted Austin band licking its wounds after being shut out of SXSW. And you’d be mostly right, save for one small detail. FXFU wasn’t started by Austinites. It was started by a Vermont band, Peg Tassey and Proud of It. True story. The year was 1993. Tassey’s band, which also included drummer Troy Pudvah (dysfunkshun) and a teenage Josh CooPer (Made in iron), had submitted a demo tape to SXSW and spent the months leading up to the festival trying to raise enough money to travel to Austin, despite not having heard back from festival organizers about whether they’d been accepted. One thing that hasn’t changed over the years: Getting into showcases at SXSW is incredibly competitive. Tassey, who now lives in Montpelier, writes that about 10 days prior to the festival she was informed that the band had not been offered a gig. But having gone all in on the bet that they’d be playing, they decided to go anyway. Her bandmates had all requested time off

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Square Foot Gardening Peter Burke Convert your lawn to a garden or your garden to permanent beds that save space. Peter will cover the basics: planning, raised beds, permanent paths, perfect soil, grid planting, watering, trellising and succession plantings. To register, call 660-3505, or sign up in store. Pre-registration and pre-payment required. Classes are $10.00 per person. See www.GardenersSupplyStore.com for program details.

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Club MEtronoME: WOKO presents Joe mcGinness (country), 8 p.m., $5/10. 18+.

tWo brotHErs tavErn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free.

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Franny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free. HalFloungE: scott mangan (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free. JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free. lEvity : Fun & Games Night, 8 p.m., Free. ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

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bEE's knEEs: Fred Brauer (acoustic), 7:30 p.m., Donations. tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Moog's PlaCE: John Daly (singersongwriter), 8 p.m., Free. ParkEr PiE Co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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Doug Perkins & Tyler Bolles (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., Free. nECtar's: Trivia mania with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. Live music, 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. o'briEn's irisH Pub: DJ Dominic (hip-hop), 9:30 p.m., Free. on taP bar & grill: Nerbak Brothers (blues), 7 p.m., Free. raDio bEan: Dave Fugel & Julian chobot (jazz), 6 p.m., Free. shane Hardiman Trio with Geza carr & Rob morse (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band (soul), 11 p.m., $3. rED squarE: Vasudo (funk), 7 p.m., Free. D Jay Baron (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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MonoPolE DoWnstairs: Gary Peacock (singer-songwriter), 10 p.m., Free. olivE riDlEy's: Karaoke, 6 p.m., Free. tHEraPy: Therapy Thursdays with DJ NYcE (Top 40), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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baCkstagE Pub: Trivia with made in the shade Entertainment, 6 p.m., Free. Karaoke with steve, 9 p.m., Free.

MonoPolE: Open mic, 8 p.m., Free.

rED squarE bluE rooM: DJ cre8 (house), 10 p.m., Free.

nECtar's: What a Joke! comedy Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. serotheft, the Edd, casio Bastard (live EDm), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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Club MEtronoME: Electrode Entertainment Presents gLAdiator (EDm), 9 p.m., $8/10/13/15.

CHarliE o's: Arborea (folk), 10 p.m., Free.

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MonkEy HousE: mercutio, Red Tin Box (rock), 9 p.m., $5. 18+.

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rí rá irisH Pub: Dale and Darcy (irish), 6 p.m.

Dobrá tEa: Robert Resnik (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

skinny PanCakE: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

Finnigan's Pub: craig mitchell (house), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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HalFloungE: Zack duPont (singersongwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Fattie B & JJ Dante (electro), 10:30 p.m., Free.

bagitos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free. grEEn Mountain tavErn: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m., Free. PurPlE Moon Pub: Pappy Hour (old time), 7 p.m., Free.

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City liMits: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free.

sliDE brook loDgE & tavErn: Ray and Russ (organ groove), 9 p.m., Free. tuPElo MusiC Hall: mix and mingle in the upper Valley (speed dating), 6:30 p.m., NA. WHaMMy bar: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

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HigHEr grounD ballrooM: circa survive, minus the Bear, Now, Now (rock), 7:30 p.m., $20/23. AA. lEvity : standup comedy Open mic (standup), 8:30 p.m., Free.

vEnuE: Thirsty Thursdays, 7 p.m., Free.

bagitos: People's café, 6 p.m., Donations.

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Club MEtronoME: No Diggity: Return to the ’90s (’90s dance party), 9 p.m., $5.

HigHEr grounD sHoWCasE loungE: star making sense, Great White caps (Talking Heads tribute), 9 p.m., $10/12. AA.

51 Main: Bob macKenzie Blues Band, 7 p.m., Free.

JP's Pub: starstruck Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free.

City liMits: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free.

lEvity : Raymond Waymond, Josh star, carmen Lagala, James Huessy, Kyle Gagnon, John Baglio (standup), 9 p.m., $8.

on tHE risE bakEry: Open mic, 7:45 p.m., Free. tWo brotHErs tavErn: DJ Dizzle (house), 10 p.m., Free.

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liFt: Ladies Night, 9 p.m., Free/$3. Marriott Harbor loungE: Jake Whitesell (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

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MonkEy HousE: Joshua Glass and shanna underwood (singersongwriters), 8:30 p.m., Free.

MonkEy HousE: Astrocat, Blue Button, Lil sickles (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

tHE Hub PizzEria & Pub: Dinner Jazz with Fabian Rainville, 6:30 p.m., Free.

Mr. CrêPE: Art Herttua (jazz guitar), 6:30 p.m., Free.

MuDDy WatErs: Jamie masefield,

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ManHattan Pizza & Pub: Hot Wax with Justcaus & Penn West (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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to suggest doing anything related to celebrating faux-Irishness, if you must, you could do worse than to catch the DIRTY BLONDES offshoot, EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE IRISH DRINKING SONGS, who will be slinging songs, pints and potatoes — yes, really — at Red Square for the ninth straight year. Sláinte! (Full disclosure: EVERYBODY’S FAVORITE IRISH DRINKING SONGS

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When WAYLON SPEED take the stage at Nectar’s this Saturday, March 16 — alongside the ZACK DUPONT BAND and TAN VAMPIRES — they will do so fresh off an appearance on the ARTIE LANGE Show on SiriusXM Satellite Radio on Friday, March 15. Lange, a one-time fixture on the HOWARD STERN SHOW, will interview the band, who I’m told will also play a few tunes. Tune in at nickandartie.com. It’s been a while since we’ve heard from bedroom-pop duo LET’S WHISPER. The Smitten-ly side project of DANA KAPLAN and COLIN CLARY has been pretty quiet of late, but with good reason. They’ve been holed up in the studio with Boston-based BTV expat BRAD SEARLES, who has been sitting in with the band on drums (and who played with almost as many Queen City bands as Clary did back in the 1990s). LW, with Searles, play the Skinny Pancake in Burlington this Friday, March 15, with Vermont’s the BAD SPELLERS and NYC’s VIVIENNE EASTWOOD. Look for a release on that record later this year.

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cluB metrONOme: Retronome (’80s dance party), 10 p.m., $5.

ON tap Bar & Grill: mitch & Friends (acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. sturcrazie (rock), 9 p.m., Free.

hiGher GrOuNd BallrOOm: Keller Williams (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., $20/23. AA.

park place taverN: Dirty merge (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

Jp's puB: Karaoke with megan, 10 p.m., Free.

radiO BeaN: Kid's music with Linda "Tickle Belly" Bassick (children's music), 10:30 a.m., Free. Glenn Roth (guitar), 7 p.m., Free. David moss (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free. michael chorney & Dollar General (indie folk), 10:30 p.m., Free. OnEoverZERO (African dup hop), 12:45 a.m., Free.

levity : James Huessy, mike Thomas, carmen lagala, Kyle Gagnon, John Baglio (standup), 8 p.m., $8.

red square: Blue Fox (blues), 5 p.m., Free. Erin Harpe and the Delta swingers (blues), 8 p.m., $5. DJ craig mitchell (house), 11 p.m., $5. ruBeN James: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10:30 p.m., Free.

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rí rá irish puB: Dominique Dodge (celtic), 6 p.m., Free. The cop Outs (celtic punk), 10 p.m., Free. skiNNy paNcake: The Bad spellers, Let's Whisper, Vivienne Eastwood (indie pop), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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night Vision (EDm), 9 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Happy Ending Fridays with Jay Burwick (solo acoustic), 5 p.m., Free. seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free. Kat Wright & the indomitable soul Band, Amy Lynn and the Gun show (soul), 9 p.m., $5.

BaGitOs: Banish misfortune (acoustic), 6 p.m., Free. charlie O's: made in iron (iron maiden tribute), 10 p.m., Free. GreeN mOuNtaiN taverN: DJ Jonny p (Top 40), 9 p.m., $2. purple mOON puB: Kip de moll (blues), 8 p.m., Free.

FraNNy O's: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. halFlOuNGe: Joe Redding (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. sass & sequin (electro), 10 p.m., Free.

Roohan (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., $5-10 donation. veNue: 18 & up Destination saturdays, 8 p.m., Free.

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BaGitOs: irish sessions, 2 p.m., Free. Kindra Lunle (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. charlie O's: Eames Brothers Band (mountain blues), 10 p.m., Free. OutBack pizza & NiGhtcluB: The shipwrecks (rock), 9 p.m., Free. purple mOON puB: The starline Rhythm Boys (rockabilly), 8 p.m., Free.

marriOtt harBOr lOuNGe: christopher peterman sextet (jazz), 8:30 p.m., Free.

the reservOir restauraNt & tap rOOm: Live music (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

Nectar's: Waylon speed, Zack dupont Band, Tann Vampires (rock), 9 p.m., $5.

tupelO music hall: Jefferson starship (rock), 7 p.m., $55/65.

ON tap Bar & Grill: The complaints (rock), 9 p.m., Free. radiO BeaN: The peasant Dramatic (singer-songwriter), 12 p.m., Free. Jugghead Band (acoustic soul), 1:30 p.m., Free. Less Digital, more manual: Record club, 3 p.m., Free. Dan charness (singer-songwriter), 5:30 p.m., Free. The Love sprockets (folk), 7 p.m., Free. shanna underwood (Americana), 8 p.m., Free. midnight Jones (blues), 9 p.m., Free. Violette ultraviolet (rock), 10:30 p.m., Free. red square: Bad Accent (rock), 5 p.m., Free. DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. Adam Ezra Band (rock), 9 p.m., $5. mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., $5. red square Blue rOOm: DJ Raul (salsa), 7 p.m., Free. rí rá irish puB: party Wolf (rock), 10 p.m., Free. skiNNy paNcake: maryLeigh

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mONOpOle: school Bus Yellow (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Olive ridley's: The Glengarry Bhoys (irish), 10 p.m., nA.

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cluB metrONOme: msR presents: Hot Buttered Rum, cabinet (bluegrass), 6:30 p.m., $15. halFlOuNGe: B-sides (deep house), 7 p.m., Free. DJs HXDB, Wu-11, Logwad, Thelonius X (EDm), 10 p.m., Free. levity : st. patty's comedy show (standup), 7:30 p.m., Free. Nectar's: mi Yard Reggae night with Big Dog & Demus, 9 p.m., Free.

51 maiN: Kasata sound (EDm), 8 p.m., Free.

ON tap Bar & Grill: Brunch with Bob Young (acoustic), 11 a.m., Free.

city limits: Dance party with DJ Earl (Top 40), 9 p.m., Free.

radiO BeaN: Bohemian Blues Quartet (gypsy jazz), 11 a.m., Free. pete sutherland and Tim stickle's Old Time session, 1 p.m., Free. samara Lark sings irish songs (irish), 4 p.m., Free. Trio Gusto (parisian jazz), 5 p.m., Free. cameron sulphin (Americana), 7 p.m., Free. Friends & Family: paper castles, in Glove With Bach, Lord Bird, Little spoon (indie folk), 8 p.m., Free.

GOOd times caFé: paul Asbell (acoustic), 8:30 p.m., $10. twO BrOthers taverN: Hi8us (rock), 10 p.m., $3.

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Bee's kNees: Glenn Roth (singersongwriter), 7:30 p.m., Donations. the huB pizzeria & puB: Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free. matterhOrN: Joshua panda and the Hot Damned (rock), 9 p.m., $5. mOOG's place: sweet and Lowdown (gypsy jazz), 9 p.m., Free. parker pie cO.: pariah Beat (rock), 8 p.m., $5.

red square: Everybody's Favorite irish Drinking songs Band (irish), 2 p.m., Free. DJ Robbie J (hip-hop), 4 p.m., Free. Woedoggies (blues), 7 p.m., Free. DJs Atak & con Yay (EDm), 8 p.m., Free. mashtodon (mashup), 10 p.m., Free. red square Blue rOOm: DJ crook$ (EDm), 5 p.m., Free. DJ craig mitchell

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Bee's kNees: shanna underwood (singer-songwriter), 11 a.m., Donations.

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ON the rise Bakery: Karen Krajacic (folk), 8 p.m., Donations. twO BrOthers taverN: DJ stanley (eclectic), 10 p.m., Free.

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the huB pizzeria & puB: Tammy Fletcher (gospel), 9:30 p.m., Free. matterhOrN: Abby Jenne and the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., $5. mOOG's place: Bob Wagner and D. Davis (rock), 9 p.m., Free. rimrOcks mOuNtaiN taverN: Friday night Frequencies with DJ Rekkon (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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mONOpOle: Flabberghaster (rock), 10 p.m., Free. Olive ridley's: The Glengarry Bhoys (irish), 10 p.m., nA. therapy: pulse with DJ nyce (hip-hop), 10 p.m., $5.

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On their debut collaboration, Child Ballads, Vermont’s Anaïs Mitchell and NYC-based songwriter Jefferson Hamer mine the five-volume treasure trove of old-world folk music that is The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, an anthology compiled by 19th-century collector Sir Francis James Child. Rife with stirring tales of political intrigue, love and death — and witchcraft! — drawn from centuries-old folk songs, Mitchell and Hamer’s lovingly produced adaptation is, simply put, timeless. Intriguingly, the two chose not to strictly adhere to the linguistic or melodic nuances of their source material. For starters, because they were most often shared orally, there are countless variations of each of these seven songs, making it next to

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ST. PATty’S week! impossible to agree on a definitive version. Wandering minstrels have been taking liberties with these songs for centuries, so why not Mitchell and Hamer? Additionally, while Old English provides beautifully poetic phrases, in certain instances the original language proved too confusing for modern audiences — raise your hand if you know what “he’s tirled low at the pin” means. So in the interest of attending to each song’s story, Mitchell and Hamer made slight adjustments to the original texts — and, when it served the narrative, to melodies. Coupled with well-considered choices for instrumentation and arrangements that err on the side of sparseness, the result is a record that honors old-world storytelling tradition without losing itself in the heady fog of history. In spite of these modest modern updates, the album’s sense of time and place is absorbing. The richness of

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Willett. In either case, his creaky croon imparts more than enough wounded pathos to get the point across — with or without the benefit of reading the lyric sheet. On the following cut, “Leonard Coen,” Brennan borrows the progression from Leonard Cohen’s classic “Hallelujah.” Through the fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift, he spins a bleary-eyed tale of love going bad. Like Cohen’s tune, there is a spiritual overtone implicit in Brennan’s adaptation. But where Cohen’s religiosity was allegorical, Brennan’s is seemingly more literal. “You could have God and take my holidays / I want you, plus God ain’t mine anyway,” he sings. It’s a passable homage to Cohen. But more importantly, it is a devastatingly effective heartbreaker. The mood shifts on the next

track, “Chatter,” sonically, at least. Emboldened by a propulsive backbeat and shimmering array of fleeting aural specters, Brennan takes a more forceful approach. It’s almost like he’s working through the post-breakup stages of grief and has entered the anger and/or bargaining phases. “Confession” is an appropriately disjointed song that develops from a dispassionately ethereal piece into a surging wall of guitars and open vocals. It maintains a ghostly aesthetic throughout, but as it builds in emotional intensity, it takes on a sinister feel. Love Wait What Yes closes on the mostly acoustic number “Maybe.” Based around little more than acoustic guitar, vocal harmonies and the occasional twinkle of piano, it is the EP’s strongest, but sparest, cut. The song features Brennan’s most direct songwriting and his most understated vocal performance. While the sonic experimentation found on the preceding numbers is certainly engaging, it is interesting that the album’s best track is also its simplest. Violette Ultraviolet debut at Radio Bean this Saturday, March 16.

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When last we left Jake Brennan he was fronting the local alt-country outfit Shelly Shredder. But after bursting out of the gate with a series of wellreceived shows last year, that band has gone quiet, presumably to regroup following a significant lineup change last summer. In the meantime, Brennan has recorded a side project under the name Violette Ultraviolet alongside multi-instrumentalist Rob Voland. The duo’s debut EP, Love Wait What Yes, is a downcast affair filled with songs of lost love and longing. While not as raucous as Shredder’s canon, it is still an impressive effort, deserving of a place in the record stacks of local alt-country fans — not to mention the recently heartbroken. The EP opens on “Lovers.” Over reverb-laden hollow-bodied-guitar chords, Brennan howls barely intelligible, lovelorn lines. Here, his anguished yelp is less the “young Ryan Adams” that Shredder fans have come to know and love, and closer to the wailing of Cold War Kids’ Nathan

language imparts nobility, or at least gravity, as Mitchell’s sprightly voice flitters alongside Hamer’s effortless tenor on foreboding tales of starcrossed lovers, brazen peasants, foolish kings and ill-fated sea voyages. Backed by nimbly plucked acoustic guitars and accented by well-placed swirls of pump organ and fiddle, these breathe with striking vitality. You’ll find yourself hanging on every word as the duo sings of a noble maiden bearing a peasant’s child out of wedlock (“Willie of Winsbury”); a wife pleading for the life of her wrongly accused husband (“Geordie”); and a scorned mother’s cruel curse (“Clyde Waters”). As Mitchell and Hamer discovered in these ancient songs, this is finely wrought storytelling. And on Child Ballads, Mitchell and Hamer vividly bring those stories to life once more. Child Ballads by Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer is available beginning Tuesday, March 19, at anaismitchell. com.

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(house), 11 p.m., Free. Rí Rá IRIsh Pub: Dale and Darcy (irish), 7 a.m., Free. Longford Row (irish), 11 a.m., Free. The X-Rays (rock), 4 p.m. The Groove Junkies (rock), 10 p.m., Free.

central bagItos: Jazz Brunch with Jason mallery, 11 a.m., Free.

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the hub PIzzeRIa & Pub: Roland and Gary clark (irish), 4 p.m., Free. MatteRhoRn: chris Tagatac (acoustic rock), 4 p.m., Free. Moog's PlaCe: Dead sessions (Grateful Dead tribute), 7:30 p.m., NA.

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burlington area halflounge: Family Night Open Jam, 10:30 p.m., Free. MonKey house: Bob Wagner and Friends (rock), 8 p.m., Free.

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neCtaR's: metal monday: Abyssus, Animals Killing People, musical manslaughter, Filthy minutes of Fame (metal), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. on taP baR & gRIll: Open mic with Wylie, 7 p.m., Free. RadIo bean: Jane Kilgour and the Trouts (folk), 5:30 p.m., Free. West (experimental jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Open mic, 9 p.m., Free. Ruben JaMes: Why Not monday? with Dakota (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free.

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RadIo bean: Jodi Ouellette (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., Free. cheap Blue Yonder (folk rock), 7 p.m., Free. irish sessions, 9 p.m., Free. Dudestew (bumpkin punk), 11 p.m., Free.

sKInny PanCaKe: Josh Panda and Brett Lanier (rock), 7 p.m., $5-10 donation.

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northern bee's Knees: Allen church (irish), 11 a.m., Donations. The Different Drummer Ensemble (irish), 5 p.m., Donations. Kip de moll (blues), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

on taP baR & gRIll: chad Hollister (singer-songwriter), 7 p.m., Free.

Red squaRe: DJ cre8 (hip-hop), 10 p.m., Free. Joshua Glass and Nuda Veritas (singersongwriters), 7 p.m., Free.

ChaRlIe o's: The cop Outs (celtic punk), 8 p.m., Free.

two bRotheRs taveRn: Trinity (irish), 4 p.m., Free.

Open mic (standup), 7 p.m., Free. uV Hippo, serotheft (funk), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+.

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Bumbles Bounce We won’t call them a super group, exactly, but

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lineage and repertoire of rock classics makes the group something akin to the world’s most famous bar band. Founded by Dave Matthews Band bassist Stefan Lessard, the group is composed of members of Guster and Barenaked Ladies and features a roster of guest players including members of Ratt, O.A.R. and Godsmack as well as actor Jason Biggs and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider. Come on, feel the noise this Saturday, March 16, when the band headlines the FestEVOL Concert Series at the Icehouse Arena at Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow.

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ChaRlIe o's: Trivia Night, 8 p.m., Free.

northern

Moog's PlaCe: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 8 p.m., Free.

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Club MetRonoMe: Dead set with cats under the stars (Grateful Dead tribute), 9 p.m., Free/$5. 18+. halflounge: Funkwagon's Tequila Project (funk), 10 p.m., Free. leunIg's bIstRo & Café: mike martin and Geoff Kim (Parisian jazz), 7 p.m., Free. Monty's old bRICK taveRn: Open mic, 6 p.m., Free.

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olde noRthendeR: Abby Jenne & the Enablers (rock), 9 p.m., Free. on taP baR & gRIll: Trivia with Top Hat Entertainment, 7 p.m., Free. RadIo bean: Ensemble Balaganesque (world music), 6:30 p.m., Free. Grup Anwar (Arabic), 8:30 p.m., Free. HonkyTonk sessions (honky-tonk), 10 p.m., $3. Red squaRe: craig mitchell (house), 10 p.m., Free. Red squaRe blue RooM: DJ Frank Grymes (EDm), 11 p.m., Free.

central bagItos: Old Time session, 6 p.m., Donations. ChaRlIe o's: Karaoke, 10 p.m., Free. PuRPle Moon Pub: Bluegrass Jam with Bo, 7 p.m., Free.

whaMMy baR: Trivia Night, 6:30 p.m., Free.

champlain valley two bRotheRs taveRn: monster Hits Karaoke, 9 p.m., Free.

northern bee's Knees: children's sing Along with Lesley Grant, 10 a.m., Donations. Lesley Grant (country), 7:30 p.m., Donations.

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ChaRlIe o's: Jesse Gile & James Rosebush (alternative), 8 p.m., Free. the PInes: Open mic with John Lackard, 9 p.m. PuRPle Moon Pub: Bruce Jones (folk), 7 p.m., Free.

p.m., $5/10. 18+.

sKInny PanCaKe: Jay Ekis (singer-songwriter), 6 p.m., $5-10 donation.

fRanny o's: Karaoke, 9:30 p.m., Free.

whaMMy baR: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Free.

halflounge: scott mangan (singer-songwriter), 9 p.m., Free. Rewind with DJ craig mitchell (retro), 10 p.m., Free.

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hIgheR gRound ballRooM: The Expendables, Fear Nuttin' Band, Pacific Dub, Dented Personality (reggae-rock), 8 p.m., $13/15. AA.

51 MaIn: Blues Jam, 8 p.m., Free. CIty lIMIts: Karaoke with Let it Rock Entertainment, 9 p.m., Free. two bRotheRs taveRn: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

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the hub PIzzeRIa & Pub: Burritos! (rock), 9:30 p.m., Free.

hIgheR gRound showCase lounge: Freshlyground (world music), 7:30 p.m., $17/20. AA.

Moog's PlaCe: Open mic/Jam Night, 8:30 p.m., Free.

JP's Pub: Karaoke with morgan, 10 p.m., Free.

the hub PIzzeRIa & Pub: seth Yacovone (solo acoustic blues), 7 p.m., Free.

leunIg's bIstRo & Café: cody sargent (jazz), 7 p.m., Free.

Moog's PlaCe: Rudy Dauth (singer-songwriter), 8 p.m., Free.

levIty : Fun & Games Night, 8 p.m., Free.

PaRKeR PIe Co.: Trivia Night, 7 p.m., Free.

Manhattan PIzza & Pub: Open mic with Andy Lugo, 10 p.m., Free.

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bagItos: Acoustic Blues Jam with the usual suspects, 6 p.m., Free.

neCtaR's: What a Joke! comedy

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“High Trash,” a current exhibit at the Fleming Museum of Art, shares some elements with Duchamp’s readymades, requiring the viewer to look beyond the materials to see the art. One difference: Seeing the beauty in Duchamp’s work requires thumbing one’s nose at established ideas about art, whereas the artists in “High Trash” have deliberately manipulated junk to make it beautiful. The exhibit is also an obvious commentary on consumerism and waste, a theme that curator Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (now at the Dayton Art Institute) notes is not new, any more than is the concept of found-object art. But at the Fleming, she continues, “a new generation of artists” tackles the subject. The result is an almost too-earnest exploration of environmental concerns by this crop of artists, punctuated by the University of Vermont’s January launch of a student-driven ban on the sale of bottled water on campus. Plastic bottles are a repeated motif in “High Trash,” as are cheap toys, crumpled food wrappers and cigarette butts. There’s nothing special about this stuff, but in the hands of these artists, it becomes compelling. Many of the works in the exhibition are intricate and almost delicate, such as “Bonsai Culture Red Pom Pom,” by Cuban-born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz. The Dr. Seussian tree, made of cast-off clothing and other discarded goods found in the trash bins of Miami’s Little Haiti, has the unexpected elegance of a large-scale object recreated in miniature. Scraps of cheap, printed polyester dresses “flower” at the base of a bonsai tree made of fabric, the cloth shining in the gallery lights. The work is beautifully constructed, even if a closer look reveals its low-cost origins.

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rench artist Marcel Duchamp was the first to present a humble object and claim it was “high art.” Signed “R. Mutt” and titled “Fountain,” the urinal Duchamp submitted to a 1917 exhibition as a legitimate work incited outrage. It was dismissed as rubbish and cut from the exhibition. Now, scholars refer to “Fountain” — the most notorious in a series of Duchamp’s “readymades” — as a major landmark in 20th-century art, and replicas of his porcelain throne grace important museums around the world.

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IS TRASH TURNED INTO ART STILL WORTHLESS? DOES IT BECOME ART BECAUSE THE ARTIST DEEMS IT SO?

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Burlington artist Rebecca Schwarz’s “(Hex) Ring Cycle” is similarly striking, made of plastic bottles and bottle caps she has arranged in a flowing shape. A string of lights make the plastic glow cheerfully, highlighting the bottles that Schwarz notes are “at once so shiny, new and easy to acquire, and yet at the same time, so persistent and disruptive.” The underlying comment on consumerist excess is hardly subtle, but “High Trash” conveys a multivalent message that goes beyond guilt about our wastefulness.

REVIEW The exhibition design wisely gives its objects space to breathe (with just more than 20 works) and lets its viewers do the same. There’s a certain whimsy in the exhibit’s deliberate shifts of scale and perspective: From far away, all of the works look beautiful and new. The sleek curves of Sayaka Ganz’s “Fogo” — a bounding, catlike creature made of discarded plastic — highlight its motion rather than its cast-off materials. Likewise, a black, flower-like sculpture on the wall (made of old car tires) catches the eye, while a geometric shape constructed of

plastic clothes hangers rotates nearby. An adorable fluffy bunny’s “fur” turns out, on closer inspection, to be used cigarette filters. The scale of these artworks can determine whether you admire them or are repulsed by their origins. Tom Deininger (responsible for the tobacco bunny) offers the most striking example of impressionistic trickery with “Wave.” What looks like a large-scale beach-scene painting from the door of the gallery turns into a Bosch-worthy tableau as you approach it and make out the tiny, corrupted plastic figures Deininger has used to “paint” the scene. Mismatched body parts are grafted onto figurines from Disney movies and Happy Meal toys, creating a mashup of once-familiar characters and trash. It’s almost humorous — but not quite. This inherent irreverence lends “High Trash” a wry air; it’s hard to take seriously a portrait of the allegedly tyrannical Roman emperor Caligula when his profile is rendered in candy wrappers and jelly beans and suspended in bubble wrap. From afar, his portrait does look a bit sinister, but there’s a defiant duality of form and materials at play here. The joke at the heart of the exhibit can just as easily cut both ways: Is trash turned into art still worthless? Does it become art because the artist deems it so? Duchamp would say yes. There’s no denying the beauty in this exhibition, even as the line between art and trash becomes less distinct in, for example, a meticulously constructed, ramshackle city of used tea bags and paper from New York artist Max Liboiron. She invites viewers to take home one of her tiny, beautiful shacks — as long as they leave something in its place. Do the old grocery receipts and wadded-up gum wrappers they have contributed thereby become art? If so, will Liboiron incorporate these new discards into her work — or will they be headed for the trash bin when the exhibition closes? The exhibit walks that line carefully. On the one hand, the works are nearly all beautifully executed and visually stimulating. On the other hand, an undercurrent of environmentalist self-awareness undercuts subtler points each artist could add to the conversation. L I N D S AY J . WES T L EY “High Trash” is on view at the Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington through May 19. flemingmuseum.org

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17th AnnuAl CreAtive reuse showCAse: Area high school students show what clever artwork can be fashioned from trash in this yearly exhibit, in conjunction with the Chittenden solid waste District. Through March 28 at Frog hollow in burlington. info, 863-6458. Abby Keller: paintings by the local artist. Through March 31 at Red square in burlington. info, 318-2438. Amber Devoss: "The Tempest Collection," brilliantly colored abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at Fletcher Free library in burlington. info, 865-7211. 'builD A sAtellite': A prop-making party provides paint, papier-mâché and other materials in advance of launching a new artists-studio space. Through March 16 at backspace gallery in burlington. info, 578-2512. CAtherine hAll: "Recycled/Reborn," an exhibit of mixed-media works by the burlington artist. Through March 31 at Vintage inspired in burlington. info, 355-5418. CreAtive Competition #17: Artworks submitted by local artists in a variety of media are up for viewers' choice award and for sale. Through March 31 at Rl photo in burlington. info, publicartschool@ gmail.com. DAve sellers: "Fundamentals of Design," an exhibit by the eclectic warren architect. Through March 31 at ArtsRiot gallery in burlington. info, 203-788-0909. DiAne g. bell: "watercolors Through the Year," impressionistic landscapes by the weston painter. Through April 28 at Magnolia breakfast & lunch bistro in burlington. emerging Artists show: This group exhibit features works in a variety of media by 14 local artists. Through March 30 at Davis studio in burlington. eriC FitzgerAlD: Art Affair by shearer presents landscape photography by the Vermont artist. Through March 31 at shearer Chevrolet in south burlington. info, 658-1111.

gAbrielle tsounis: "Tzigane," oil and acrylic paintings inspired by the artist's world travels. Through April 1 at Vintage Jewelers in burlington. info, 862-2233.

group exhibit: photography by Jacques burke and Kristen watson; paintings by Marie lapre grabon and leslie McCool; mixed-media work by Maria Anghelache and Alan Arnold; collage work by elizabeth nelson and erika lawlor schmidt; and sculpture by Janet Van Fleet. Through April 30 at Maltex building in burlington. info, 865-7166.

hAl mAyForth: "subversive in his own little way," watercolors, abstract acrylics, word paintings, grid paintings and humorous paintings that

eDwArD burtynsKy: The Canadian photographer, known for his large-scale images of postindustrial landscapes, gives a talk in conjunction with his current exhibit. Thursday, March 14, 4:30-6 p.m., Dana Auditorium, sunderland language Center, Middlebury College. info, 443-3168. lunCh n' leArn leCture: Art conservator emily phillips talks about the restoration and cleaning of a painting that hung in the school's dining hall for 40 years. light

CAstleton FACulty show: works in a variety of media by 13 college art faculty. Through May 11 at Castleton Downtown gallery in Rutland. Reception and gallery grand opening: Friday, March 15, 6-8 p.m. info, 468-1266.

'treAsures From the shelDon': A new curation of 19th-century objects, art and ephemera from the museum's permanent collection. Through April 22 at sheldon Museum in Middlebury. Talk: Director bill brooks leads a gallery talk. wednesday, March 20, noon-1 p.m. info, 388-2117.

reCeptions elizAbeth billings: "Kinetic," paintings relating to the motion of material bodies and the force of energy. March 15 through April 2 at Feick Fine Arts Center, green Mountain College, in poultney. Reception: Friday, March 15, 6-8 p.m. info, 287-8398. 'the blue swAns: seven women Artists': works in a variety of media by local artists Klara Calitri, linda hampton smith, Molly hawley, patty lebon herb, phoebe stone, sarah wesson and Yinglei Zhang. Through March 31 at Jackson gallery, Town hall Theater in Middlebury. Reception: Friday, March 15, 5-7 p.m. info, 388-1436. DoK wright: "Crescendo," large-scale images by the

originated in the artist's sketchbooks. Through May 11 at Amy e. Tarrant gallery, Flynn Center in burlington. info, 652-4510. 'high trAsh': Artworks from 18 contemporary artists using discarded materials address themes of waste, environment and consumerism in the age of climate change. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750. Jill mADDen: "northern landscapes," oil paintings inspired by the local woods, water, snow and mountains. Through April 27 at left bank home & garden in burlington. info, 862-1001. JohAnne DuroCher yorDAn: Dreamy abstract paintings by the Vermont artist. Curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at VCAM studio in burlington. info, 859-9222. JohAnne DuroCher yorDAn: "Contemplation," acrylic paintings that represent change and evolution in the artist's life. Through March 30 at studio 266 in burlington. info, 578-2512. JuDith tuttle & robert huntoon: "waterscapes," pastel and oil paintings, respectively, by the Vermont artists. Through May 30 at shelburne Vineyard. info, 985-8222. KArol KAwiAKA: Contemporary abstracted paintings. Through March 29 at seAbA Center in burlington. info, 859-9222.

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ClArK Derbes: "prehistoric Art of the Future... Today!" Two- and three-dimensional geometric-painted works by the burlington artist, including a wall collaboratively painted with JsC students. 16t-willowhouse031313.indd 1 March 14 through April 13 at Julian scott Memorial gallery, Johnson state College. Reception: Thursday, March 14, 3-5 p.m. info, 635-1469.

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'plowing olD grounD: vermont's orgAniC FArming pioneers': black-and-white documentary photographs by John nopper, along with narratives collected in oral histories by agricultural writer susan harlow. March 16 through June 1 at Vermont history Museum in Montpelier. Reception: saturday, March 16, 2:30-4:30 p.m. info, 479-8519. mArK F. CArter: The local artist discusses his vibrantly colored abstract paintings, often inspired by dreams. Department of Continuing education in burlington. Reception: Friday, March 15, 5-7 p.m. info, 656-2085.

'lAbor oF love': Created by Vermont works for women with the Vermont Folklife Center, the touring exhibit features 25 photographs of women with various occupations. March 20 through April 10 at burlington College. info, 655-8922. 'lAbor oF love': Created by Vermont works for women with the Vermont Folklife Center, the touring exhibit features photographs of 25 Vermont women of various occupations. Through March 18 at Center for Cultural pluralism, uVM, in burlington. info, 655-8922. 'lArge worKs': Artworks that measure at least three feet in one direction. Through April 20 at soda plant in burlington. info, 578-2512.

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'light snow': Metal sculpture by bruce R. MacDonald, woodcuts by george peterson and kinetic, floating clouds by gordon Auchincloss. Through March 31 at havoc gallery in burlington. info, 800-639-1868. lizA CowAn: "saki: pug for Fun," photographs of the artist's dogs. Through March 31 at Artspace 106 at the Men's Room in burlington. info, 864-2088. 'lost AnD FounD': A group photography exhibit, curated by Davy Rothbart of "This American life" and Found magazine, explores that which has been lost, rediscovered, and forgotten. Through March 31 at Darkroom gallery in essex Junction. info, 777-3686. buRlingTon AReA shows

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'prAxis: using Art to moDel sustAinAble eConomies': Artist and activist Max liboiron builds installations out of trash and invites participants to interact with them according to rules of exchange. wednesday, March 13, 6-8 p.m., Fleming Museum, uVM, in burlington. info, 656-0750.

JoAn hoFFmAnn: The artist gives a talk titled "history of American landscape painting." Friday, March 15, 7-8 p.m., Tunbridge public library.

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group show: works by Marc Awodey, Carolyn enz hack, paige berg Rizvi, Ruth hamilton, will patlove, Che schreiner, David powell and ethan Azarian. Curated by seAbA. Through May 31 at the innovation Center of Vermont in burlington. info, 859-9222.

'pAinting orDinAry people': James Maroney, former head of American paintings at sotheby's and Christie's, illustrates genre painting, the portrayal of people in everyday activities, from 1740 through the 20th century. wednesday, March 13, 7-8 p.m., ilsley public library in Middlebury. info, 388-4095.

burlington photographer. Through April 15 at burlington College. Reception: Thursday, March 14, 5-7 p.m. info, 923-2335.

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gAlen Cheney: "Via della spada," oil and enamel on three panels, escalator; Kevin Ruelle: Vintage-looking Vermont posters, gates 1-8; and Tod gunter: Aviation-themed illustrations, skyway. Through April 30 at burlington Airport in south burlington. info, 865-7166.

lisA Forster beACh: Artist talk. wednesday, March 20, 7-8 p.m., River Arts Center in Morrisville.

lunch provided. Tuesday, March 19, noon-1 p.m., sullivan Museum & history Center, norwich university, in northfield. info, 485-2183.

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Mark Boedges: An exhibit of new winter landscape paintings by the Vermont artist also includes scenes of other seasons. Through March 31 at Mark Boedges Fine Art Gallery in Burlington. Info, 735-7317. Nicholas Taylor: "Jean-Michel Basquiat: An Intimate Portrait," photographs of the artist at 19 taken by his friend and fellow frequenter of Manhattan's famed Mudd Club. The exhibit is on loan from Niagara University's Castellani Art Museum. Through March 30 at Bailey/Howe Library, UVM in Burlington. Info, 656-3294. 'oceaNic arT aNd The PerforMaNce of life': Intricately crafted objects, including masks, textiles and weaponry, from indigenous cultures of the Pacific Islands. Through May 24 at Fleming Museum, UVM, in Burlington. Info, 656-0750. 'seaT's TakeN': An exhibition that aims to examine human interaction, question the way we navigate the world, and challenge our reactions to the unfamiliar, uncomfortable and different. Through April 6 at BCA Center in Burlington. Info, 865-7166. 'shadows: aN exhiBiTioN of TaTToos': Paintings and screen-prints by regional and Vermont tattoo artists. Through March 20 at JDK Gallery in Burlington. Info, 864-5884. 'sTorMy weaTher': Heavy skies and ominous storms inspired the artworks in this group exhibit in multiple media. Through March 30 at S.P.A.C.E. Gallery in Burlington. Info, 578-2512. 'Take aParT, PuT TogeTher, fall aParT': An exhibition featuring a collaged wood installation by Davin Sokup, and photos and drawings by Asher Sullivan, both alums, and woodcut prints by current art education student Diana Brooks. Through March 16 at Colburn Gallery in Burlington. Info, 656-2014. Trevor sullivaN: Vermont-inspired paintings on old windows. Through April 30 at Fiddlehead Brewing Company in Shelburne. Info, 508-523-7476. weNdy JaMes: Photographic illusions and vivid paintings by the local artist. Curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at Speeder & Earl's (Pine Street) in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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willow BascoM: Colorful illustrations of animals, curated by SEABA. Through May 31 at Pine Street Deli in Burlington. Info, 859-9222.

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BarBara leBer: "Seasons of the Year," acrylic paintings on board with the theme of color and light. Through March 30 at Contemporary Dance & Fitness Studio in Montpelier. Info, 229-4676. cherie sTaPles & MarilyN wiNgersky: The sisters, members of the Art Resource Association, exhibit photographs and watercolors, respectively. Through April 6 at City Center in Montpelier. cyNThia e. fraNTz: "Garden of My Heart," still-life photographs that explore the sacred feminine. Through March 30 at Shifting Gears Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 793-7654. fioNa sullivaN: "Shades of Pussy," watercolor paintings of flowers. Through March 30 at Tulsi Tea Room in Montpelier. Info, 223-0043. gallery MeMBers show: A group exhibit featuring works small and large, in a variety of media, by 35 regional artists. Through March 30 at BigTown Gallery in Rochester. Info, 767-9670. gleN coBurN huTchesoN: Paintings, drawings and sculpture by the Montpelier artist. Visitors are invited to drop by Monday through Friday, 3-6 p.m., and be the subject of a "talking portrait," a life-size pencil drawing. Through July 31 at Storefront Studio Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 839-5349. 'hey, They caN really draw a liNe': A group exhibit of works curated from Mark Waskow's Waskowmium that examine line quality. Through March 30 at ORCA Media in Montpelier. Info, 223-0432.

Amber DeVoss DeVoss discovered her identity as an artist early in life. Starting at age 11, she spent summers learning and experimenting with oil paints under the tutelage of her great-aunt, established artist and gallery coordinator Jane Goddard. Since

this early exposure, DeVoss has fostered a vibrantly elegant, abstract style all her own. This month at the Fletcher Free Library’s Pickering Room she displays her “Tempest Collection” — oil paintings on canvas that evoke the mysterious spirit of the world around us. 'how PeoPle Make ThiNgs': In a hands-on exhibit inspired by "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," visitors can make objects using four manufacturing processes: molding, cutting, deforming and assembly. Lab coats and safety glasses available! Through June 2 at Montshire Museum of Science in Norwich. Info, 649-2200. 'iN The eye of The Beholder': Paintings by three Vermont artists — Anne Unangst, Marcia Hill and Cindy Griffith — interpreting the same landscapes. Through March 31 at Governor's Office Gallery in Montpelier. Info, 229-4326. JoaN hoffMaNN: "American Wilderness and Habitats," oils and watercolors by the Royalton artist. Through March 22 at Tunbridge Public Library. Info, 889-9404. JohN sNell: “Still Learning to See,” work by the lifelong photographer. Through March 15 at Central Vermont Medical Center in Barre. Info, 371-4375. Joyce haydeN & NaNce silliMaN: "Resiliency," assemblage boxes, collages and paintings by Hayden; paintings and mixed-media work by Silliman. Through April 13 at Nuance Gallery in Windsor. Info, 674-9616. 'legeNdary laNdscaPes': Works by Union Elementary School second graders inspired by Chinese landscape paintings. Through March 31 at Montpelier City Hall in Montpelier. Info, 229-9416. 'lighT & sPace': Work by printmakers Sabra Field and Dan O’Donnell, fiber artist Karen Madden, and sculptor Pat Musick. Through May 10 at the Great Hall in Springfield. Info, 885-3061. liT Tyler: "Memories of an Unconscious Nothing," artwork by VTC's director of institutional research. Through May 31 at Hartness Gallery, Vermont Technical College, in Randolph Center. Info, 728-1237. Micki colBeck: "Underwater," large oil paintings by the Vermont artist that reflect the blue planet's liquid in its many guises. Through April 30 at Vermont Supreme Court Lobby in Montpelier. Info, 765-4468. 'Mold Makers': A group show of artwork made from and relating to the mold-making process, Main Floor Gallery; Norwich uNiversiTy

sTudeNTs: Five years of lo-fi works, Second Floor Gallery; and Theodore Ceraldi: "Hidden," paintings and sculpture, Third Floor Gallery. Through April 6 at Studio Place Arts in Barre. Info, 479-7069. NaThaN vaughaN: "Glass Cat Presents," digital prints of album covers for fictitious bands the artist dreamed up. Through March 29 at Local 64 in Montpelier. Info, 595-0605. saNaM erfaNi: "Liberata," photography and mixed-media works expressing life's inspirations. Through March 31 at Green Bean Visual Art Gallery at Capitol Grounds in Montpelier. Info, curator@ capitolgrounds.com. 'survival souP': Collage, painting and mixedmedia work by Randolph artists Travis Dunning, Matthew Riley and Seth Tracy and White River Junction artist Ben Peberdy. Through April 5 at Main Street Museum in White River Junction. Info, 356-2776. 'The MysTerious MiNd': Paintings and sculptures by Nina Benedetto, Joan Curtis, Thomas McGraw, Mareva Millarc and Fran Bull that aim to reflect the subconscious through the insights of Jungian psychology. Through March 24 at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts in Chester. Info, 875-1018. Two rivers PriNTMakiNg faculTy show: Masterful prints by more than a dozen member and nonmember instructors. Through April 30 at Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction. Info, 295-5901. 'useful aNd elegaNT accoMPlishMeNTs': Landscape drawings by 19th-century Norwich University alumni and their contemporaries, many of whom were involved in the Civil War; '1861-1862: Toward a higher Moral PurPose': An exhibition exploring the experiences of Norwich University alumni who fought in the Civil War. Through June 30 at Sullivan Museum & History Center, Norwich University, in Northfield. Info, 485-2183. weNdy hackeTT-MorgaN: "Animals Art Figures, Too," mixed-media works that explore the human mind's ability to see images in everything. Through April 26 at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Info, 223-3338.

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latest collection of paintings, Stafford artist Micki Colbeck reflected on the power of water in all its manifestations on the planet, and literally captures the liquid’s reflective quality. Her artist statement for “Underwater,” an exhibit at the Vermont Supreme Court in Montpelier, explains: “I have been thinking about water — about glaciers, about floods and hurricanes, about storm surges and sea walls, and its consequences, displaced populations and destroyed farmlands. I have been looking at water and down into water, wading on rocks and studying reflections.” Colbeck’s glimmering oil paintings are on view through April 30. (Pictured: “Underwater Trees.”).

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Carolyn ShattuCk: Works created by layering individual monoprint plates over one another to create subtle environments of color, pattern and line. Through April 1 at Brandon Music. Info, 465-4071. 'EmErging artiStS': Works in a variety of media by 11 art students at Mt. Abe Union High School. Through March 26 at Art on Main in Bristol. Info, 453-4032. Full houSE: This annual exhibit showcases the colorful works of artists Richard Weis, Brian Sylvester, Johanne Durocher Yordan and Katherine Langlands. Through March 23 at Chaffee Downtown Art Center in Rutland. Info, 775-0356. libby hillhouSE: "Parallels," photographic portraits paired with text drawn from interviews with Vermonters living below the poverty line. Through March 30 at Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Info, 388-4964. 'linEar thinking: Sol lEWitt, modErn, PoStmodErn and ContEmPorary art From thE CollECtion': A LeWitt drawing installed by students; 'naturE tranSFormEd: EdWard burtynSky’S VErmont Quarry PhotograPhS in ContExt': Iconic photographs exhibited within the context of the geological and social history of the area, including the Italian immigrant stoneworkers in the granite quarries near Barre (through April 22). At Middlebury College Museum of Art. Info, 443-3168. marC aWodEy: "Painting IS the Object," a selection of figurative paintings by, and in tribute to, the late artist and Seven Days art critic. Through April 5 at Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College. Info, 468-1266. mEmbErS' ShoW: "Vermont Scapes," works in a variety of media that reflect the beauty of

Vermont. Through April 30 at Brandon Artists Guild. Info, 247-4956. PEtE SuthErland: The well-known Vermont folk musician is earning a second reputation for his cut-paper artworks, on display here in a number of colorful collages. Through March 29 at WalkOver Gallery & Concert Room in Bristol. Info, 453-3188. Stu hall & CalEb FoStEr: "Snapping Snowflakes," images of the frozen stuff by two local photographers following in the footsteps of Snowflake Bentley. Through April 30 at Mt. Mansfield Community Television in Richmond. Info, 434-2550.

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adriEn 'yElloW' PatEnaudE: "Yellow Vistas," landscape paintings by the Newport painter. Through April 14 at Emile A. Gruppe Gallery in Jericho. Info, 899-3211. amanda VElla: Boldly colored abstract paintings by the local artist. Through March 31 at Merchants Bank in South Hero. Info, dupasquier@aol.com. bianCa PErrEn: "The Center for Circumpolar Studies: Arctic Views," plein-air paintings and prints by the artist/scientist who studies the changes in Arctic landscapes as a result of climate change, pollution and human land use; liSa ForStEr bEaCh: "Cultural Energy," paintings by the Vermont artist. Through March 25 at River Arts Center in Morrisville. Info, 888-1261. ChriS StEarnS & galEn ChEnEy: Art photographs and colorful abstract paintings, respectively, in the Upstairs Gallery. Through March 31 at West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park in Stowe. Info, 253-8943.

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Call to artiStS art+Soul: Art+Soul brings artists and nonprofits together to celebrate our creative community! In 2013 the beneficiary is ECHO, and we want to see your Lake Champlainwatershed-inspired artwork sold at a 50/50 fundraiser this June. Visit artandsoulvt.org for more details. Deadline: May 3.

mud (SEaSon) Exhibit: Work representative of our region’s most cautiously optimistic season. Whether you are looking up, down or ahead for inspiration, submit! Full details at artistreevt.org/submit-work-mud/.

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oPEn grouP ShoW at “CrEatiVE ComP” First Friday every month. $8 entry fee; limit 1 per artist. No rules, any size/media/subject. Entries accepted Wednesday through first Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Opening reception on first Fridays, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. People’s choice winner gets cash prize. Exhibit up for month. Location: Root Gallery at RL Photo, 27 Sears Lane, Burlington. For info, call 540-3081 or email publicartschool@gmail.com. triCk oF thE EyE Exhibit Calling for submissions: Optical illusions conjured by a variety of processes, from studio setups to spontaneously captured works, that inspire the question, “How did they do that?” Deadline: April 3. Juror: Benjamin Von Wong. More info at submissions@darkroomgallery.com. darkroomgallery.com/ex41.

ChandlEr annual arEa artiStS ShoW: Orange, Washington and Windsor County artists are invited to submit one sample of their work. Drop-off: April 7 and 8. Opening: April 13. Info, chandler-arts.org.

it CamE From SPaCE! The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery is launching a Satellite Arts space, and we need your “spaced out” work for a 50/50 fundraising art exhibit. Think spacemen, planets, rockets and asteroids! Deadline March 15, more details at spacegalleryvt.com/call-to-artists

‘thE World around uS’: Photographers 18 and under are invited to submit photos for a contest. First-, second- and third-place cash prizes will be awarded in three categories: people, animals and nature. Deadline: March 15. Call Camilla, 988-4300, or Emily, 988-4741, for info. Rules and applications at woodenhorsearts.com/photofun/index.shtml.

How did two arts editors with no business experience build a multimillion dollar publishing company? Find out in this installment of Champlain’s “Speaking From Experience” entrepreneurship series.

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art oF CrEatiVE aging Juried exhibit featuring recent work of older (70+) visual artists living in central Vermont. Send digital submissions to mharmon@cvcoa.org by March 30. Info, 476-2681.

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SEEking yoga-inSPirEd art: The Burlington Yoga Conference is seeking yogainspired artwork to hang at the conference on May 4 and 5 in the UVM Davis Center. Deadline: April 20. Please contact ben@ empvt.com to submit.

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nCg PrESEntS ECologiES! New City Galerie is accepting submissions for its April show centered around environmental and ecological education and justice. Deadline: March 18. Submit via email: newcitygalerie@gmail.com.

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works and signature geometric paintings and sculptures is a veteran of communitybased projects, including at the Burlington skate park and the University of Vermont. Derbes is in collaborative mode with his latest exhibition, “Pre-Historic Art of the Future...Today!” He and Johnson State College students are painting a wall at the campus’ Julian Scott Memorial Gallery. The show also features some of Derbes’ smaller works. In an upcoming exhibit titled “Time Travelers,” opening March 30 at Stowe’s West Branch Gallery & Sculpture Park, Derbes will show new chainsaw-carved and painted wood sculptures. Pictured: “Angelique.”

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Christina Z. anderson: snowflake Bentley’s images printed with the mordançage process by the Montana state University, Bozeman, professor. Through March 15 at the old Red Mill in Jericho. Info, 899-2335.

'ConVersations in Cloth': Quilted works by June Bugbee and friends. Through April 30 at Jericho Center Town hall. Info, 899-2974.

Jan tiChy: “Installation no. 6 (tubes),” an artwork of sculpture and light that references urban landscape, architecture and human activity as light pulses, crawls and glows through paper tubes. Through April 14 at helen Day Art Center in stowe. Info, 253-8358.

lydia Corrow & mathew Purdue: "summer of Change," interpretations of landscape by the Vermont artists. Through April 22 at northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild Backroom Gallery in st. Johnsbury. Info, 748-0158. mary ann duffy godin: "Birds, Blooms and Vintage," watercolor paintings by the Vermont artist. Through April 17 at Bent northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. Info, 827-3945.

Jeanette fournier: Realist bird-focused watercolors by the new hampshire artist. Through March 31 at VIns nature Center in Quechee. Info, 359-5000.

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Jean-JaCques duVal: paintings, stained-glass sculpture and preliminary drawings for large stained-glass windows installed in europe, Japan and the U.s. Through March 24 at Burke Gallery, plattsburgh state Art Museum, n.Y. Info, 518-564-2474. suny Plattsburgh students' Clothesline exhibition: This 3rd annual event features work, hung on clotheslines, by students campuswide, not just art students. Through March 24 at plattsburgh state Art Museum, n.Y. Info, 518-564-2474. 'tony bennett: the art of anthony benedetto': watercolors, sketches and paintings by the world-renowned singer. Through April 14 at Galerie of the Maison du Festival Rio Tinto Alcan in Montréal. Info, 514-288-8882. m

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kelly holt: "I walk the Line," mixed-media paintings. Through April 30 at Green Goddess Café in stowe. Info, 253-5255.

'sourCe: guild of Vermont furniture makers': An exhibition of fine furniture by Vermont craftspeople with a focus on the source of all the elements that collaborate to make the final piece (through April 14); galen Cheney: Colorful, large-scale, abstract paintings that evoke urban graffiti, architecture and the organic (through February 24). At helen Day Art Center in stowe. Info, 253-8358.

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'graCe: Past and Present': A group exhibit of artists represented by the community-arts organization. Through April 25 at GRACe in hardwick. Info, 472-6857.

seCond tuesday artists grouP exhibit: paintings by artist-friends Alex Bottinnelli, Liz nelson, Maggie neale, Kathy stark and Ann Young. Through March 31 at Claire's Restaurant & Bar in hardwick. Info, 802-586-8078.

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sandra ershow: watercolors and pastels by the waterbury artist. Through March 15 at Copley woodlands in stowe. Info, 253-7200.

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movies Dead Man Down ★★

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olin Farrell is one of Ireland’s best rising stars in Hollywood and abroad today.” No, that’s not from the Onion. It’s the lead to the actor’s bio on the Internet Movie Database. Which got me wondering how long a star may reasonably be described as “rising.” Farrell made his first film in 1996, after all. That means he’s been rising for 17 years now, all the way from the depths of American Outlaws (2001), Alexander (2004) and Miami Vice (2006) to the heights of Total Recall, a picture widely regarded as one of last year’s least memorable. I don’t believe Colin Farrell is or ever really was a rising star. He’s a star who occasionally rises above the mediocre to give a first-rate performance in a truly fine film. In Bruges and Crazy Heart come to mind. I suspect the process he uses to choose projects involves a blindfold and a dart. How else to explain his involvement in the English-language debut of Danish filmmaker Niels Arden Oplev? Oplev, of course, directed the original version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which was an international hit in 2009 but, more importantly, was based on the writing of Stieg Larsson.

Dead Man Down, by contrast, is based on the writing of J.H. Wyman, best known for The Mexican, a 2001 action comedy remembered chiefly for proving it’s possible for a movie to bomb even if it stars James Gandolfini, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Wyman has zero track record. Oplev has never made a movie in America. So, naturally, Farrell couldn’t sign on fast enough. When else is he going to get the chance to play a Hungarian engineer who infiltrates the operation of the vicious NYC kingpin (Terrence Howard) who killed the engineer’s wife and daughter because they wouldn’t vacate a building in which he wanted to deal drugs? Victor, our hero, wants revenge, but not the straightforward, eye-for-an-eye kind. He favors the byzantine B-movie brand in which the wronged party changes his name and masquerades as a street thug so he can get close to his target and learn enough about his business to burn the whole thing down singlehandedly. Even that’s not needlessly convoluted enough for this guy. Victor also feels compelled to mail Howard’s character strategically diced pieces of a family photo, which Wyman, incredibly, has the cold-blooded

AIMING LOW Farrell lends his services to yet another forgettable movie misfire.

gangster assemble jigsaw-style through the movie with mounting alarm. We don’t have to check our watches; we know the end is near when Victor sends the part of the picture revealing his own face. Speaking of faces, I haven’t even gotten to the film’s nuttiest part. Noomi Rapace plays Beatrice, a French beautician whose onceattractive face was scarred semi-noticeably in a car crash. She and Victor are neighbors who gaze woundedly at each other through facing windows. When they finally go on a date, it turns out she’s seeking not a boyfriend but a hit man. Beatrice knows he butchers bad guys in his spare time (pull those shades down, Vic!) and will go to the cops unless he agrees to kill the drunk driver responsible for her accident.

Well, relationships have been built on less. The movie is almost two hours long, and nothing much happens until the see-itcoming-a-mile-away last-act bloodbath. It’s nothing you haven’t seen a million times before, so I’m not sure what the attraction was supposed to be here — plot holes and pretentious patter? Wyman’s dialogue is spectacularly lackluster, Oplev’s direction is undistinguished and an atmosphere of what can only be described as “generic noir” pervades the film. Dead Man Down desperately needed someone to inject life into it — but, once again, Farrell didn’t quite get around to rising to the occasion. RICK KISONAK

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Oz the Great and Powerful ★★★

ith Oz the Great and Powerful, Disney incites us to celebrate flickery, old-time movie magic and the ingenuity of a penniless showman by dazzling us with all the digital wizardry that $200 million can buy. This at a time when the machines that produce those charming flickers are vanishing across the land as if magicked away. In 2011, Martin Scorsese’s Hugo pulled exactly the same trick of using the digital medium to eulogize the analog illusions it replaced. But Hugo had a good story, fueled by Scorsese’s obvious love of cinema, and it introduced a new generation to a reallife impresario of illusion, Georges Méliès. Oz the Great and Powerful also has a director — Sam Raimi — with an evident love for antique gimcrackery. But it doesn’t have a solid story, just brand recognition. The “underdog” it asks us to root for is already universally known as the title character of one of the most beloved films of all time — a film this Oz simply can’t touch. The movie is both a prequel to the L. Frank Baum book (and 1939 film) and an origin story for the famous “man behind the curtain.” As we already know, Oz is a midwestern carnival charlatan who rides an air balloon to a tripped-out fantasyland and

makes his name there with “magic” of the Thomas Edison variety. James Franco plays him with the smirking self-consciousness of a high school drama star who enjoys the spotlight but considers himself too cool for this matinee fare. When Oz arrives in Oz, the natives greet him as the fulfillment of a prophecy and an exterminator of wicked witches, just like Dorothy. Their need for heroic intervention doesn’t make so much sense this time around, because the kingdom is already ruled by three sister witches (Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams) who should be able to handle such threats with, you know, real magic. But one sister is a naïve pawn, one is the wicked witch herself, and the third — hint: she wears glittery white — is saccharine and ineffectual. Besides, Oz has to undertake a generic hero’s journey and learn to Believe in Himself, because that story template brought crowds to Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. So the filmmakers give him a companion for comic relief (Zach Braff voicing a flying monkey) and another for tear-jerking motivation (Joey King as a china doll) and send him on his way to the inevitable showdown with evil. Rote and manipulative as it is, Oz does

BUBBLEHEADS Williams guides Franco through a trippy paradise in Raimi’s prequel.

have moments that will wow viewers, especially kids. The landscape of Oz is glorious, a hybrid of Thomas Cole’s romantic wilderness paintings, Dr. Seuss and psychedelia. The Emerald City looks from outside like a two-dimensional cardboard cutout, just as it should, and from inside like Metropolis. The Munchkins, Tinkers and other zany extras are fun. And the mournful interlude where Oz rescues the china doll from her devastated tea-party city feels like it belongs in a better movie, such as last fall’s Wreck-It Ralph, which Disney managed to imbue with the emotional resonance that Oz lacks.

It’s one thing to revel in Technicolor illusions, and another to preach those illusions as truth. The makers of The Wizard of Oz understood that distinction well. But Oz the Great and Powerful pushes its gospel of modern “magic” — one third science, one third show biz, one third motivational speech — with Disney Channel earnestness. That recipe seems to be working just fine for the real men and women behind the curtain, who programmed and marketed this uninspired spectacle into blockbuster reality. MARGOT HARRISON

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Mario Hili, 64, avoided thousands of dollars in traffic fines by reporting his car stolen each time a traffic camera caught him speeding or running a red light. After the latest incident, Senior Constable Siobhan Daly told an Australian court “it was the 21st time since 2000 that Hili had reported his car stolen. Each time he would find it himself at various locations around Geelong.” Daly said that after the latest incident, police fingerprinted the car and found only Hili’s prints. (Australia’s Geelong Advertiser)

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Rita Crundwell, 60, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $54 million from Dixon, Ill., while she was the small town’s comptroller. The thefts occurred over more than 20 years and funded a lavish lifestyle, which included prize-winning horses, expensive jewelry, luxury cars and extravagant parties. During this time, city officials said, her massive thefts crippled Dixon’s budget. She blamed the shortfalls on an economic downturn and late payments from the state government. Noting that since her arrest, his client’s cooperation with authorities in selling off assets toward restitution “has been extraordinary,” public defender Paul Gaziano urged a short sentence. Instead, U.S. District Judge Philip Reinhard sentenced her to 19 years and seven months in prison, declaring, “You showed much greater passion for the welfare of your horses than the people of Dixon you represented.” (Chicago Tribune and Associated Press)

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Police accused Ryan Herman, 23, of trying to take hostage a dozen employees at a Walmart store in Glendale, Ariz., by threatening them with a fire extinguisher. When police arrived and told Herman to drop the fire extinguisher, an officer said Herman raised it in a “threatening manner” and had to be Tasered. (Phoenix’s the Arizona Republic)

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A new fashion line aims to make wearers invisible to drone cameras. “Stealth Wear,” by designer Adam Harvey, is made from silver-infused fabric that reflects heat, thereby blocking thermal-imaging cameras. “There’s a lot of products in the stealth area that are too militaristic or are too associated with the tinfoil

hat crowd,” Harvey said. “I tried to do something that’s in between.” The line consists of a hoodie, which costs $473, and a burqa, which sells for $2365. “These are really highquality fashion garments, not everyday wear,” said Harvey, who previously designed an “anti-paparazzi” handbag that detects and neutralizes camera flashes, and the OFF pocket, which disables cellphone signals. (U.S. News & World Report)

Second-Amendment Follies While people entering the state capitol building in Austin, Texas, wait to be

screened by metal detectors and scanners looking for concealed weapons, armed lawmakers may bypass the lines by showing their concealed-carry permit. Of the 181 members of the state House and Senate, as many as half are armed, according to Alice Tripp, legislative director of the Texas State Rifle Association, who said, “There’s a couple who, I used to say, their desks would qualify as a gun show.” Several lobbyists, reporters and other regular visitors to the capitol who don’t carry firearms nevertheless underwent training to get a concealed-handgun license just to qualify for the

express entry. (The New York Times) Since the Dec. 14 shootings at a school in Newtown, Conn., communities in Maine, Virginia, Utah, Pennsylvania and Georgia have passed or considered laws requiring citizens to own guns. “Basically this is a deterrent ordinance,” Councilman Duane Cronic said at the meeting in Nelson, Ga., whose city council unanimously approved mandatory gun ownership. “It’s no more than putting a sign in your front yard saying that ‘ADT protects this home.’ Now the person that may be there (checking) your home out to cause harm

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Because electric and hybrid motor vehicles don’t make enough noise at low speeds to warn pedestrians, bicyclists and the visually impaired, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed requiring them to make additional noise at speeds slower than 18 miles per hour. The federal agency said it

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After the North Carolina House Judiciary C Committee approved a bill making it a felony to purposefully expose “private parts,” including a woman’s “nipple, or any portion of the areola,” state Rep. Tim Moore pointed out that women could avoid prosecution by applying duct tape to their nipples. “You know what they say,” Moore quipped. “Duct tape fixes everything.” (Raleigh’s WRAL-TV)

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discovered that it contained rich deposits of silver. so began an explosion of silver mining that made many prospectors very wealthy. i suggest you be on the alert for a metaphorical version of blue mud in your sphere, Cancerian: an “inconvenience” that seems to interfere with the treasure you seek, but that is actually quite valuable.

(Feb. 19-March 20):

A source of fulfillment you will enjoy in the future may seem almost painful when it initially announces its presence. In other words, your next mission may first appear to you as a problem. Your situation has a certain resemblance to that of prolific Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who produced a wide variety of enduring works, including symphonies, ballets, operas and concertos. When he was a precocious child, he was assailed by the melodies and rhythms that frequently surged through his mind. “This music! This music!” he complained to his mother. “Take it away! It’s here in my head and won’t let me sleep!”

aRIES (March 20-april 19): if it’s stupid and it works, it’s not stupid.” That could turn out to be a useful mantra for you in the coming week. being pragmatic should be near the top of your priority list, whereas being judgmental should be at the bottom. here’s another mantra that may serve you well: “Those who take history personally are condemned to repeat it.” i hope you invoke that wisdom to help you escape an oppressive part of your past. do you have room for one more inspirational motto, aries? here it is: “i am only as strong as my weakest delusion.” taURUS (april 20-May 20): don’t you just love to watch the spinning of those wheels within wheels within wheels? aren’t you grateful for the way the ever-churning plot twists keep you alert and ready to shift your attitude at a moment’s notice? and aren’t you thrilled by those moments when fate reveals that its power is not absolute — that your intelligence and willpower can in fact override the seemingly inexorable imperatives of karma? if you are unfamiliar with the pleasures i’ve just described, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get deeply acquainted. CheCk

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(July 23-aug. 22): when pioneer filmmaker hal roach worked on scripts with his team of writers, he sometimes employed an unusual strategy to overcome writer’s block. he’d bring in a “wildie” to join them at the conference table. a wildie was either a random drunk they found wandering around the streets or a person who lived in an insane asylum. They’d engage him in conversation about the story they were working on, and he would provide unexpected ideas that opened their minds to new possibilities. i don’t necessarily recommend that you seek the help of a wildie, leo, but i hope you will come up with other ways to spur fresh perspectives. solicit creative disruptions!

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(May 21-June 20): it won’t be a good week to issue unreasonable, illogical and self-centered demands. and please don’t make peanut butter and jelly a part of your sex life, take a vacation in siberia, or photocopy your butt and deliver it anonymously to your boss. on the other hand, it will be an excellent time to scrawl motivational poetry on your bedroom wall, stage a slow-motion pillow fight and cultivate your ability to be a deep-feeling free-thinker. other recommended actions: give yourself a new nickname like highball or root doctor or Climax Master; write an essay on “The Five Things That the pursuit of pleasure has taught Me”; and laugh uproariously as you completely bypass the void of sadness and the abyss of fear.

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19th century, prospectors mined for gold in the mountains of western nevada. The veins weren’t as rich as those in California, but some men were able to earn a modest living. Their work to extract gold from the terrain was hampered by a gluey blue mud that gummed up their machinery. it was regarded as a major nuisance. but on a hunch, one miner took a load of the blue gunk to be analyzed by an expert. he

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resisting the most enormous Magnet there is,” wrote the sufi mystic poet rumi. he was wistfully bemoaning his own stubborn ignorance, which tricked him into refusing a more intimate companionship with the blessed source of all life. i think there’s something similar going on in most of us, even atheists. we feel the tremendous pull of our destiny — the glorious, daunting destination that would take all our strength to achieve and fulfill our deepest longings — and yet we are also terrified to surrender to it. what’s your current relationship to your Magnet, scorpio? i say it’s time you allowed it to pull you closer.

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(nov. 22-dec. 21): nasa used whale oil to lubricate the hubble space telescope and Voyager spacecrafts. There was a good reason: whale oil doesn’t freeze at the low temperatures found in outer space. while i certainly don’t approve of killing whales to obtain their oil, i want to use this story to make a point. it’s an excellent time for you, too, to use old-school approaches for solving ultra-new-school problems. sometimes a tried-and-true method works better, or is cheaper, simpler or more aesthetically pleasing.

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(dec. 22-Jan. 19): The theory of the “butterfly effect” proposes that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may ultimately impact the weather in new york. here’s how the writer richard bernstein explains it: “Very slight, nearly infinitesimal variations and the enormous multiplicity of interacting variables produce big differences in the end.” That’s why, he says, “the world is just too complicated to be predictable.” i find this a tremendously liberating idea. it suggests that every little thing you do sends out ripples of influence that help shape the kind of world you live in. The coming week will be an excellent time to experiment with how this works in your daily life. put loving care and intelligent attention into every little thing.

aQUaRIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Former football quarterback Joe ayoob holds the world’s record for throwing a paper airplane the longest distance. after it left his hand, the delicate craft traveled over 226 feet. i propose we make ayoob your patron saint and role model for the coming week. From what i can tell, you will have a similar challenge, at least metaphorically: blending power and strength with precision and finesse and control. it’s time to move a fragile thing or process as far as possible.

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Kiwi healthy living Thanks for bringing the kiwi over to my van that I forgot in my cart! Can I take you out for a cup of tea or coffee to say thanks? when: Friday, March 8, 2013. where: healthy living parking lot. you: woman. Me: Man. #911066 walMart You almost ran into me with your shopping cart. Then I saw you again in the closet-organizer aisle and I struck up a conversation. If I had been on my toes, I would have said “I’m pretty handy with power tools, I’ll help you build something for your closet.” Maybe it was your nice smile, but I’d like to... when: wednesday, March 6, 2013. where: williston. you: woman. Me: Man. #911064 Prettiest girl i Done laiD... EYES ON! Dirty girl ;). I saw you in September. Actually, I felt you first, when you put your arms around me. We met a week later for a walk, you had your dog. I fell in love with him, not long later you captured my heart as well. A spark turned to a roaring flame. My heart is still with you! when: saturday, september 22, 2012. where: B.o.r. you: woman. Me: woman. #911063

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Cute girl at esPresso Bueno Saw a gorgeous woman wearing a bright-red dress, nice heels, black leggings. Had a very wonderful smile as well :). Was on Thursday March 7th, 7:22 in the morning. when: Thursday, March 7, 2013. where: espresso Bueno, 3/12/13 11:27 AM Barre vt. you: woman. Me: Man. #911062 BeniM hariKa sheCeru!i At last, three little words: You feel like home to me. Thank you for coming into my life and for being my true happy place. I smile every day because of you. Love you baby! when: Friday, november 16, 2012. where: istanbul. you: Man. Me: woman. #911061

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sweet Caregiver Today we rode the elevator twice; we exchanged smiles and giggles. From the two look backs as you exited I’m thinking you read my first I Spy. Yes, It’s me. when: tuesday, March 5, 2013. where: st. Paul street. you: woman. Me: Man. #911058

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runner with Brown Dog Saw you running on Church Street without your dog, then on Elmwood to Intervale with your cute brown pit bull. Tall, bearded ... single? I’m intrigued. I was with my dog at the corner of Elmwood. when: Monday, March 4, 2013. where: Church st./ elmwood ave. you: Man. Me: woman. #911057 i Miss your sway I never met you in person but we both helped eachother! I liked you Caysie. You’re the only girl I ever cried about and I never met. Weird, but I want your friendship back. You: nurse. Me: photographer, singer to you. Oh, and your guitars are done. -Mark when: Thursday, March 4, 2010. where: webster new york. you: woman. Me: Man. #911056

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can’t stop thinking about you ... very grateful and interested to know you better. I left part of my heart in Philly, waiting for that 9 o’clock flight. Destined to meet back home in Vermont? when: saturday, March 2, 2013. where: Philadelphia airport. you: Man. Me: woman. #911055 MarDigras with your Dog lilly We talked at the top of Church Street about our dogs after the parade. Your dog Lilly with the PFW bandanna, 11 yrs, my dog 9-10. I was tongue-tied and you walked away saying it was cold. Care to meet again? I won’t be tongue-tied this time. when: saturday, March 2, 2013. where: upper Church st. you: Man. Me: woman. #911054 Forever heiDi Nothing can stand between us, and nothing will stop me from meeting you. You are my future and nothing can ever keep us from our destiny. I miss you more every day. I am here with open arms where you will some day finally arrive ... right where you belong. Love Captain Awesomeness when: saturday, november 3, 2012. where: in my heart. you: woman. Me: Man. #911053 Battle oF the BeaDs! You are a cute redhead with a great smile. Using my height/reach to my advantage, I stole your beads. You informed me that if another set fell onto the street, you would win the ensuing battle. I wish I had been a bit less focused on winning the bead-grabbing competition with my friends (mission accomplished), and properly introduced myself. when: saturday, March 2, 2013. where: Mardi gras Parade, Burlington. you: woman. Me: Man. #911052 yoga City MarKet Kelly, missed you at yoga. Two weeks? I was looking forward to talking with you again. when: Friday, February 15, 2013. where: City Market. you: woman. Me: Man. #911051 BeautiFul with the “sultry eyes” My “Grams” was right when she said I’d know when I looked into her eyes! Now you know as well. The ring is not a wedding ring, it’s a horseshoe design I made in school. I so hope you wrote my # down. when: Friday, March 1, 2013. where: hannaford express lane. you: woman. Me: Man. #911050 we talKeD aBout PhilosoPhy I was the red-haired temp who got fired. The only reason I stayed until the end of the day was because of you. “It’s difficult to be made to participate in an organization you want nothing to do with.” when: tuesday, February 26, 2013. where: essex. you: Man. Me: woman. #911048 thursDay, 9:30, MCDonalD, williston rD. You sat by the fire with your daughter. You: long black hair, black jacket and red shirt. Your daughter had a red jacket. I was wearing a hoody and a reflector vest and was standing at the counter. We smiled a few times. I wanted to talk but had to rush back to work. Let’s meet. Brian when: Thursday, February 21, 2013. where: McDonald’s, williston road. you: woman. Me: Man. #911047 MuDDy waters Lovely girl with long, curly, black hair and green sweater jacket with crochet flowers. Saw you and two friends sitting by the door at Muddy Waters on Saturday, 11:30 a.m.-ish. We smiled at each other briefly. You glanced over occasionally at what I was making. Let’s have a coffee together this time. when: saturday, February 23, 2013. where: Muddy waters. you: woman. Me: Man. #911046

Katherine, saturDay, MuDDy waters Hi Katherine. You fix hiking trails, I sculpt wood. Want to talk more. Let’s meet again. Brian when: saturday, February 23, 2013. where: Muddy waters. you: woman. Me: Man. #911045 haPPy BirthDay! Elvira, happy happy birthday! Thank you for being a wonderful inspiration and beautiful person. May all your dreams come true. “All grown-ups were once children but only a few of them remember it.” when: tuesday, February 26, 2013. where: in my dreams. you: woman. Me: Man. #911044 tall, BalD, sleeP eXPert You asked me if these worked, you tell me? I saw you for the first time a year ago. You found me recently online. We met almost 3 weeks ago, but it seems as though we’ve known each other forever. Hurry back from your trip, my couch misses you (and so do I!). Let’s see where this goes! when: sunday, February 10, 2013. where: t2t & Burlington town Center. you: Man. Me: woman. #911043 gorgeous Curly-haireD girl at yMCa You on a treadmill; me on the spin bike behind you. Later in the locker room you said I was in great shape and I didn’t quite know how to respond, which you assured me was just fine. If that happened to have been a flirt, I’d love to grab a beer with you. If not ... well, thanks again ;). when: Monday, February 25, 2013. where: downtown yMCa. you: woman. Me: woman. #911042 suPer seXy PisCes at sea I spy a sexy Pisces who swam by so swift, just caught a glimpse of your shimmery lips. You set the pace to keep as we raced into the deep. You were sleek and bright in your neon tights, attracted to my blinky lights. Let me lick your tiger stripes! when: saturday, February 23, 2013. where: Btv and nyC. you: woman. Me: Man. #911041 DarK-haireD Beauty at levity I could not keep my eyes off of you. We made eye contact many times during the show and even a few smiles. I feel we had a connection. I was with friends, you may have been with a date? Would love to get a drink sometime. when: Friday, February 22, 2013. where: levity. you: woman. Me: Man. #911040 oPPosite oF the sKinny PanCaKe I love getting my large dark roast and sometimes a quicky just so I can see your adorable face. when: sunday, February 24, 2013. where: not the skinny pancake. you: Man. Me: woman. #911039 row 13, Better than 24? You: row 13. Me: all the way in the back. Curious to hear more about your goals regarding energy philosophy. Hope you made it off the plane OK. when: sunday, February 24, 2013. where: JFK airport. you: Man. Me: woman. #911038

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